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.
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Google Adds IMAP Access For GMail
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+1 for waiters here. I am so on the edge of my seat about this. I really, really, really, really, really want IMAP. I was so mad at GMail after using it for about a week on my iPhone that I moved my entire e-mail library over to my school mail account, which is on Exchange servers with IMAP support, and started using that. The synchronization is amazing and totally sweet. The junk mail is nothing short of depressing. My school account gets an unbelievable amount of junk mail, probably 75% of the stuff in my inbox (after the university mail "filter") is spam. It's such a pain on the iPhone. I can't wait to get back to an awesome mail filter with GMail.
Hurry up and give it to us, Google! Grah!!
Hurry up and give it to us, Google! Grah!!
Not showing up for me yet either, but I have faith. I'm just grateful they've finally switched it on. I can wait a few days while they roll it out.
IMO there really is nothing that can compare to gmail now. Fantastic spam filter, 4.3GB storage and counting, great simple web interface, POP3, IMAP etc. Brilliant!
IMO there really is nothing that can compare to gmail now. Fantastic spam filter, 4.3GB storage and counting, great simple web interface, POP3, IMAP etc. Brilliant!
Nothing here either. But I'm looking forward to this, POP using the Mail client was extremely painful.
Give it 3 day, They are probably getting hammered down with requests. It sooo much better than POP3.
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?
It's like waiting on your invite to beta test Trillian for Mac... it just seems like it'll never get here! (Still no imap =/)
My brother has it, I created a new email and it got it, but my current one... nope.
I created tat new one to play around with it and it works great, it's awesome with the iPhone!
I created tat new one to play around with it and it works great, it's awesome with the iPhone!
wow!
i guess im one of the lucky few to have access to the IMAP feature...
its cool and everything i guess...
but ive noticed that it takes longer to connect, and then check the email...
also the little dial at the top is constantly spinning, even after its done checking for new mail...
so if its constantly spinning, then that means your phone is working harder, resulting in a soon to be dead (out of charge) iPhone...
so why does it do that? or am i alone... hmmm
:: my 2 cents ::
i guess im one of the lucky few to have access to the IMAP feature...
its cool and everything i guess...
but ive noticed that it takes longer to connect, and then check the email...
also the little dial at the top is constantly spinning, even after its done checking for new mail...
so if its constantly spinning, then that means your phone is working harder, resulting in a soon to be dead (out of charge) iPhone...
so why does it do that? or am i alone... hmmm
:: my 2 cents ::
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.
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 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.
you are correct, I didn't mention that step because in my gmail setup, that option was already selected when I logged in. I assumed google made that the default.
Thanks for the tip. I have to admit, the web version is pretty nice. Might be better if I can sync my address books, and, as you say, add auto complete.
I still dont have IMAP enabled in the settings in Gmail yet, but its definately a great idea from Gmail to add this feature!
I have had the imap since late Tuesday night when I first saw it in my gmail settings. It is wicked fast when it comes to uploading and downloading emails you WILL notice a difference. I was in the original Gmail beta, but my wife just started her account and both of us were enabled in settings at the same time The folders work perfect too.
Matt...
Matt...
The short answer is it keeps your mailboxes in sync. Opening a message on your iPhone means it shows as "read" on your Mac, PC, etc., and vice-versa. With POP, every new message you get downloaded to your iPhone will show as "unread" even if you read it on your home computer.
There are other advantages, but that seems to be the biggie.
Google's explanation for sent message copies
From the Google page on this issue:
According to this page, "If you're accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail's recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail."
I configured a gmail account for my wife that I knew she would only access from her iPhone or the web, so I turned off recent mode. No more duplicate sent messages.
From the Google page on this issue:
According to this page, "If you're accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail's recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail."
I configured a gmail account for my wife that I knew she would only access from her iPhone or the web, so I turned off recent mode. No more duplicate sent messages.
iMap, Folders and Address Books
Does the imap synchronise all your folders too? How are your folders represented on GMail?
Does it handle your address book? Does anyone know of a way to synchronise your Address Book with GMail?
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Does the imap synchronise all your folders too? How are your folders represented on GMail?
Does it handle your address book? Does anyone know of a way to synchronise your Address Book with GMail?
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