Gmail flips the switch on IMAP support

Our country cousins at Download Squad have picked up the scent of a major change over Gmail way: support for IMAP access to Google's multigigabyte free email service appears to be up and running as of tonight (possibly not yet turned on for all accounts; check your settings to be sure).

What this means for Mac users: better support for Gmail within Mail.app, Thunderbird and Entourage. For iPhone users: a way better Gmail experience over the previous POP or web client approaches -- Gmail has even posted handy setup instructions for you. First step: Don't choose the Gmail setup button, choose "Other..." instead. (Yes, they know, they're working on it.)

If you use Gmail and want to fire it up in IMAP on your iPhone, by all means let us know how it goes.

Thanks Chris

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worked for me. also it created folders for my GTD inbox extension on my iphone. so now i can select say "action" and it shows all my emails and tasks. AWESOME!

November 07 2007 at 5:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lennon Aldort

It works great for me in Mac OS X Mail 3.0. (I just installed Leopard today).

The only thing I wonder is, is any email actually being downloaded to my computer anymore? When I create mailboxes under the "Gmail IMAP Account" sub-box, they get created at gmail.com on the server, which means it doesn't actually have to store anything on my computer. Sometimes when I click a mailbox, it has to quickly load the messages, even though I was just in there a second ago. I kinda liked it better when it actually downloaded messages to the hard drive. But I know that if I create "On My Mac" boxes, those won't sync with Gmail, so overall I like it as it is.

October 27 2007 at 3:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

betovarg

does anyone know if its faster in thunderbird then mail.app?
its slow on apple mail.

thankyou!

October 26 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brandon

is anyone having trouble with mail freezing for about 20 sec while writing an email after changing to IMAP support

October 26 2007 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jer

useful for people having problems with their mailboxes...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071023233813768

October 26 2007 at 3:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sjk

Adding Gmail IMAP accounts to Mail had the side-effect of moving the top-level mailboxes for my primary IMAP account (formerly peers of Inbox, Drafts, Sent, et.al.) into a new folder corresponding to that account. And the Gmail account mailboxes use similar top-level folders, which I couldn't make appear as subfolders of the Inbox by trying different IMAP Path Prefix settings.

October 25 2007 at 8:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

uhh they're still rolling it out to everyone. and its free. don't see the need for so much complaning when u'll have it in a couple days anyway

October 25 2007 at 6:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Charles

I'm pretty much it's a Google. Conspiracy: the more you want the feature, the further down the list you go. I've commented to this thread a few times, and made a blog post on it. I think I'll see IMAP sometime in 2008.

October 25 2007 at 2:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edison

Ridiculous! I want this feature so bad, but neither the account I've had since GMail first game out in like 2003 or so, nor the account I just created has the IMAP enabled on it!! Ahhhh!!!

October 25 2007 at 12:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Charles

My account is

October 25 2007 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply