Re: [PATCH] README: add info about mailing list subscription

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

"Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" <godfat@godfat.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > I guess another question is: do you use IMAP to read mail
> > or webmail (or something else, POP3)?
> 
> Oh, now I understand what you're saying. Unfortunately
> I am currently stuck with GMail, using the web interface.
> I could setup POP3 to receive emails into my inbox (I did so
> for some other accounts), but I guess I could not setup IMAP
> for GMail.

Actually, GMail supports SMTP and IMAP; they just give scary
warnings about enabling them because they lack 2FA support.
git manpages for git-imap-send(1) and git-send-email(1)
document GMail support, even.

> > For a sysadmin, the beauty of NNTP is there's no per-client
> > state stored on the server itself.  It's all in the client.
> > Same for Atom feeds.
> 
> I could setup/run some daemons on my server, as long as
> the mails could eventually deliver to my inbox so that my
> regular workflow would stay the same. I don't know what
> could do that though.

I'm not sure if NNTP tools exist for NNTP=>IMAP or NNTP=>POP3;
yet.  But if I write an NNTP=>POP3 server, it'll more likely
be a part of yahns (Ruby) and not part of public-inbox (Perl5)
at this point; so maybe you would be willing host that for
other people, too :)