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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10-23-2007 @ 10:05PM
Joseph Blossom said...
No imap support for my account yet. I wonder how they go about choosing people for these things.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:09PM
LittleJoe said...
:-( the imap feature isn't available in my gmail settings yet.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:12PM
oshawapilot said...
Ditto here - no IMAP goodness on my account either.. (sigh)
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10-23-2007 @ 10:15PM
cory said...
I set it up on my iPhone and Mail earlier today. It's working extremely well... very, very fast! I have been waiting on this feature in GMail for years now, and this feature works really well. It seems a bit slow in Mail on Tiger, but hey, it's FREE and over 4 GBs of storage!!
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10-23-2007 @ 10:15PM
Brian said...
Has anyone ever found a way to switch from a POP account to a IMAP account without losing all the mail? Even when it's the same address.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:22PM
Alan said...
yea same here....
no IMAP support here yet....
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10-23-2007 @ 10:24PM
Clancy said...
Hell Yeah! mine works.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:26PM
Michael Rose said...
http://myskitch.com/mike/gmail_-_inbox__1990_-20071023-222113/
IMAP ftw...
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10-23-2007 @ 10:27PM
Artin Assadourian said...
I have it!! I just configured Mail but just after it "downloaded" every single email on my gmail.. it crashed.. and it won't stop crashing when opening.. damn it!
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10-23-2007 @ 10:28PM
David L. said...
one of my gmail account has it, and it works like a charm!
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10-23-2007 @ 10:31PM
oshawapilot said...
(....waits patiently in front of Macbook, clicking on "Settings" link in Gmail account repeatedly.)
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10-23-2007 @ 10:32PM
Cycomachead said...
Not to mention the increase to over 4GB! Mine is @ 4334, but alas no IMAP support.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:36PM
byaah said...
@11
Same here =(
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10-23-2007 @ 10:37PM
JXG said...
it works on my account. thanks for the update tuaw and download squad!
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10-23-2007 @ 10:38PM
pablo said...
it's good on mine. frakkin' sweet.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:40PM
Alex said...
No IMAP here either! ;(
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10-23-2007 @ 10:47PM
Basheer said...
Anyone know if this will become availabe for Google-Hosted-Domain email anytime soon?
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10-23-2007 @ 10:49PM
Squuiid said...
No imap for me either. :-(
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10-23-2007 @ 10:51PM
George Muenz said...
Works for me. Loading of messages a bit slow.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:54PM
Scott said...
works on mine and its probably the greatest thing ever.
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