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October 24, 2007

Gmail and IMAP - Together at Last

gmail.gifEveryone’s talking about Google’s new addition to Gmail today. They’ve added IMAP support.

What the heck is IMAP, you may ask? Well, let’s just say that it’s a very cool way to use e-mail.

Say you have an iPhone and a Gmail account. You’d like to be able to use the mail app on your iPhone, but you’d also still like to be able to login to Gmail when you’re at a computer and view it over the web. And you want them both to be the same (you’re awful demanding, aren’t you). So if you check a message on your iPhone, you want it to show that you’ve read it and/or moved it online too.

Well, with IMAP, that’s exactly what happens.

I could explain more, but why would I when so many other people have already done it? If you want to read the nerdy details, check out Wikipedia’s IMAP entry for more info.

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Edit:

Here’s the video Jeff referenced below.

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One Response to “Gmail and IMAP - Together at Last”

  1. Jeff said:
    October 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    IMAP was the only thing that was missing in gmail. The best thing now is that I can sync my gmail account with my iPhone! I saw a video tutorial and it’s so easy! If you guys don’t know how, here is the link: http://www.weshow.com/us/p/20767/set_up_gmail_imap_for_iphone

    gmail for the win! lol

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