October 23, 2007

IMAP is coming to GMail

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Victor Cajiao @ 6:52 pm

Listener Brian ( In Texas) sent me the picture below of his Gmail client . When he went to settings then “Forwarding and POP” section, it shows a new IMAP Access section which includes verbiage that says “Configure your email client (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird, iPhone). According to Brian “There were no instructions available on the support center, merely an option to enable or disable imap.”

Another friend in South Carolina Kreg Steppe, has confirmed he has this option too . I am in California and I do not have this option yet. Google must be doing a roll-out of this feature. Let’s hope so as this would be a much needed feature.

Thanks to Brian for the scoop. This is unconfirmed by Google. Google now has some IMAP documentation. Fantastic news.

IMPAP on GMail

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  • http://www.themaccore.com Katie

    IMAP access on GMail would solve SO many problems. I hope this turns out to be true, I cannot wait!

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  • http://welchwrite.com Douglas E. Welch

    Configured this in Mac Entourage with no problems. Updating folders as I typed.

    Douglas

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Awesome Douglas I don’t have it yet, but will configure it as soon as I do . Glad to hear this was a true story. Thanks to Brian again.

  • http://sholden.typepad.com Steve Holden

    This is great news. – Steve

  • Shannon

    This is great news. I haven’t used Aple Mail so far because Gmail lacked IMAP support. Looks like I can make this switch too!

  • http://victormac.net Victor G

    I am using it now. It works great. You can see all your old messages and it updates your gmail inbox when you read an email on your iphone. It’s great!

  • Switcher98223

    I just checked my gmail account and the option does not appear to be available to me. Is this being slowly rolled out?

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Yes , too slowly. I don’t have it yet either. It’s hit and miss.

  • http://mmoran.com Mark

    It’s enabled here. Now envision syncing an IMAP account with 16,000 msgs. It’s TOO slow.

  • Switcher98223

    It is now enabled here. I’m having some trouble wrangling all the messages and getting things where I want, but it is up and running here.

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