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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Look Out Outlook IMAP Gmail is Coming!!

- Matt Faulkner

image Gmail is really shaking things up now!  Seems that a select few are getting a nice surprise in their Gmail settings...  IMAP!!  If you don't know what IMAP support is, then check out the FAQ listed on Google's Page, but here is the most important part.

Unlike POP, IMAP offers two-way communication between your web Gmail and your email client(s). This means when you log in to Gmail using a web browser, actions you perform on email clients and mobile devices (ex: putting mail in a ’work’ folder) will instantly and automatically appear in Gmail (ex: it will already have a ’work’ label on that email).


In addition, IMAP provides a better method to access your mail from multiple devices. If you check your email at work, on your mobile phone, and again at home, IMAP ensures that new mail is accessible from any device at any given time.

No access to it yet in my account :( but hopefully soon it'll show up.  When I get it, this means that I can set up Outlook on my Tablet PC to read Gmail thru IMAP, set up my new 8925 Tilt to read IMAP and I never have to read the same message twice!  That will be nice.  Wonder if all this means that Rob might switch back to Gmail??  Maybe not since it's just mail syncing...

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10/24/2007 6:55 AM MST  

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:42:42 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Matt,
Are you sure you don't have the IMAP option? I didn't think I had it yet, but on a whim I went and checked my Settings. There it was. The "Forwarding and POP" tab is now the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab and the IMAP options are at the bottom of the list.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:56:41 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
You are one of the lucky ones then - I just checked and mine still says POP - without the IMAP.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:31:27 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Both my wife and I have gmail accounts. Mine has the IMAP option, hers does not. I wonder how they chose to roll out the IMAP option.
Nevin McChesney
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:23:17 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Matt:

What's the big deal here? I've been doing this with Hotmail for many years. Although Hotmail does not use IMAP, it uses WebDAV which gives the same end result -- all of your mail is kept on the centralized Hotmail server and synchronized with Outlook when you connect on any PC. Why does Google get all of this good press and Microsoft gets ignored for having had this capability for years.
Mark (K0LO)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:41:00 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Well, it is a new feature for a widely used mail client that will help mobile users that check mail on multiple devices. Also, Rob posted about the Hotmail Connector just the other day when it was released, so we haven't been picking choosing to leave MS off the page. I also just feel that the WebDav feature has been around for so long that many people already know about it.

don't you have to pay for WebDav too?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:55:43 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Not if you have been a long-time user. New Hotmail accounts require a $20 annual fee, I think. But I've had my account for so long that I've taken support in Outlook for granted.
Mark (K0LO)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:04:20 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
It's nice to see that Google is joining the rest of the world. It's a shame that it's taken so long for the world to migrate to IMAP from POP, but it's a good thing that it's happening.
GoodThings2Life
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:49:24 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
So I gather from this that you can use gmail offline in outlook if you imap to that. But I have gigabytes of files in gmail - is it going to copy all this over and stick it on my hard drive?
scoobie
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