Konqueror and Gmail

[Anoop]

Hi Keven,

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Anoop wrote:
>> Can someone tell me how to make Konqueror work with Gmail?
>
> Why use a web browser for e-mail?
I very much use KMail. But sometimes I do need to use Webmail say if I
am not on my workstation.

Thanks,
Anoop

>
> The best solution is to use KMail, follow the instructions for IMAP access
> and you can still keep all your messages on the server as with webmail
> (which also means you can still use the webmail on other machines, or even
> the same machine for that matter), but get an actual e-mail client which is
> much nicer to use than some AJAX crap in the browser.
>
> A web browser is not an e-mail client!
>
> That said, Konqueror's default KHTML engine can be persuaded to work with
> GMail by faking browser identifiers or such. And indeed there's also the
> WebKitPart, but that's not that great an idea as it's not the recommended
> HTML renderer in Konqueror (in fact the only reason it works at all is that
> Konqueror can embed any arbitrary KPart).
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
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