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 @ 10:56PM
Ben Englert said...
Patience, children. The nodes in the big Google neural cloud do not all agree about this IMAP fellow just yet. Don't worry, though, support for him is spreading throughout the community.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:56PM
Leonard Nimrod said...
I think we can expect IMAP PUSH coming too.
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10-23-2007 @ 10:57PM
Sam said...
IMAP FTW!!!!!
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10-23-2007 @ 10:59PM
Matt said...
works great for me, i love even having access to my tag "folders". i noticed that sending mail from the phone saves the msg to the iphone's sent folder by default. i wonder if gmail will automatically save a copy or if people who want their mail should change this.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:04PM
Charles Barilleaux said...
Woot! We get the IMAP
not-so-Woot!: It hasn't hit my account yet. Any of them.
Oh well. There is hope, at least.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:07PM
Jon P said...
It works really well - labels show up as folders on both OSX mail and in the iphone - when you move mail to a folder it's automatically archived and given that folder's label. Couldn't be better!
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10-23-2007 @ 11:07PM
Jimbo said...
Yep, I got it. Now, do I delete my POP account? What do I do?
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10-23-2007 @ 11:09PM
Dave said...
FYI I had to logout and login to get the IMAP settings.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:10PM
Matt said...
Mine is all setup, just waiting for Google to tell us it's Push!
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10-23-2007 @ 11:12PM
Frank said...
Yep got it. Works beautiful ... all 40+ tags I have are showing up as folders. I think I'm in love.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:14PM
Paul S. said...
Sweet! I've been waiting for this ever since I discovered how great IMAP was when I set up Mail to sync my college mail account!
Luckily, my single account has the feature already, though Mail is going quite slow with it at the moment. Maybe it's just because it has to sort through all this new mail, or maybe they're still working out the kinks over at Google HQ.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:15PM
Ryan Schmidt said...
Works SO great. It lists all the tags as folders on the phone and you can move them. WOW. Soooo nice. I have been craving IMAP Gmail support since the day I got this phone. My dream has come true.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:22PM
Jerry said...
yay works for me
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10-23-2007 @ 11:23PM
Gassia said...
At least it works flawlessly on my iPhone :)
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10-23-2007 @ 11:24PM
MacBookOwner said...
OK, I'm a bit new to the IMAP thing when it comes to online mail like Gmail-what is the big advantage to reconfiguring my current POP Gmail account to IMAP? (My Gmail account has IMAP in the preferences now)
I'm all for switching if there is a great reason to...just dreading the redownloading of email again (since iPhone's mail delete message system blows)
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10-23-2007 @ 11:28PM
Rob said...
Have set up IMAP - quite cool, especially the downloading of various Gmail folders (labels). I don't know if this is the "IMAP-Push" that Yahoo does... which is supposedly like the blackberry e-mail service. Anybody know if Yahoo's IMAP-Push is similar to blackberry's push, and if Gmail's IMAP follows suit?
It's about time Gmail caught up... been waiting on this for a while.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:29PM
Zombie Flanders said...
my [Gmail] folder gave me an error and doesn't seem to be or do anything, but it's so nice to not get my own sent emails in the inbox anymore! Push, let's get it on!
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10-23-2007 @ 11:33PM
Joe Maller said...
What I really, really want is GMail as an IMAP client. When they enable that, it will be the end of spam as we know it.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:40PM
Jonathan Tyler said...
Um.
You guys heard of Izymail.com? I don't know if that's been brought up here or not but I use this for my hotmail and it works on my iPod Touch just fine. :>
Unless there's some dark secret as to why no one uses it... Hm.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:42PM
Paul said...
At long last! No more convoluted routes to getting Gmail sourced IMAP mail onto my iPhone ....
Configured Mail.app and iPhone Mail and it's now working sweet! Thankyou Google!!!!!!
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