I want it soooo bad. I first saw the announcement last night and have been waiting. Still nothing. Oh well, I've waited this long, a few more days won't kill me.
Give it 3 day, They are probably getting hammered down with requests. It sooo much better than POP3.
I tried this, didn't help metry switching the language to US english, this helped me, i am now IMAPing and its fantastic
try switching the language to US english, this helped me, i am now IMAPing and its fantastic
Doesn't work for me neither. Hope I can get it before 9th Nov...
I tried a new gmail acct and I could NOT get the IMAP there either, oh well have to wait and see what happens and when it happens, should be soon if there advertising all these demos and such, you know that Google is getting emails slamming them saying what the heck guys and gals?
make sure you select NEW account, not new GMAIL account. That feature doesn't work yet with IMAP. If you follow the video instructions, you should not have any problems.
I think you missed a step.
You first need to log in to your Gmail account and enable IMAP. What most of us are saying (I believe) is that we do not see the option to even turn on IMAP yet in our accounts. At least I don't. Once that's enabled, I can then go to my iPhone and follow the mailbox creation steps outlined in the video.
There's a lot of fuss about Gmail IMAP, but you should also check out their new iphone web interface at m.gmail.com. I've found it to be MUCH FASTER than the mail app, which I believe comes from not forcing download of readable attachments. Also, you can do one-touch deletes and access most of your usual gmail features. I feel like this is what mail should have been like on the mail app.
The only thing it is lacking are the usual apple integrations with other apps and background mail checking. Its compose functionality is limited as well, since it lacks a good address book auto-complete. I'm curious for the people with IMAP access- which do you like more, web or built-in? Compared to POP, I think I will keep it set up on the mail app for composition, but after it chimes in with new email, hop on Safari to read with the web interface. I just can't stand it when I get a 1mb attachment on EDGE and have to wait 2 minutes to read a friggin email.
I don't mind admitting my ignorance of all things IMAP and POP.
What is the advantage of IMAP on GMail over POP?
does the new gmail IMAP prevent every email you send from your iphone from arriving back in your inbox as an unread email?
If you notice that messages you send from your iPhone are appearing in your iPhone's inbox, please note that this POP behavior is a result of enabling Recent mode to ensure that all other POP clients will be able to access your messages. We're aware of this issue and thank you for your patience while we address this issue.
I don't mind admitting my ignorance of all things IMAP and POP.
What is the advantage of IMAP on GMail over POP?