Gmail finally offers IMAP!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I read on Slashdot that Gmail is finally offering IMAP support for their email accounts. According to the comments in the ./ post they’re only rolling it out to a few accounts for now. I eagerly checked my gmail account and to my surprise I found they’d enabled IMAP on my account! (In the past I’ve always been the last to get the new Gmail features.)
I prefer using IMAP over POP3 (which Gmail has had available for a while now) because with POP3 I somehow always manage to lose email when I’m downloading it to a desktop mail client. Ever since I started using Gmail, I’ve stuck to checking my email using the web-based interface. Now I get to use both the web-based interface and a desktop client, woohoo!
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1. Fat Fingers
said:
on Nov 03 2007 @ 06:29 PM
It’s about time that they did and I’m glad. I’m currently using Gmail as my anti email spam solution – all of my different email addresses forward into it and I let it weed out the spam (something it does well, on the whole).
Now that they are offering IMAP access, I’ll be able to pull those clean messages into my desktop email client once again.
2. Pieter-Jan
said:
on Nov 22 2007 @ 12:58 PM
Yes FINALLY! Waited for it, I was sure that is was coming. I am starting to like google ;)