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.