Google Sync for Apple Mail!?!

[JasonR]

Ok...I have a paid Google Apps account, and I have push email on my iPhone. Can I somehow get Google Sync with the standard Mail.app? iCal will do it, along with the address book. How in the holy hell do I get Mail to do it!?

Any help is appreciated!

 

[mkelly]

Ok...I have a paid Google Apps account, and I have push email on my iPhone. Can I somehow get Google Sync with the standard Mail.app? iCal will do it, along with the address book. How in the holy hell do I get Mail to do it!?

Any help is appreciated!

You don't need to use Google Sync - just enable IMAP support in your Google account and set up a new IMAP account in Mail.app.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695

If you click the "configure your mail client" link on that page, you'll find instructions on setting up Mail.app.

 

[BrianBaughn]

mkelly is correct about how to configure Mail with your Gmail account.

However, you'll discover that Mail may not always be up-to-the-second with your Gmail account like your iPhone. In my case, Mail consistently lagged behind no matter what settings I applied. This has been discussed in these forums.

For this reason I am now using the third-party email client "Postbox"(v2). Seems to get "pushed" mail instantly. They have a free version, "Postbox Express", which has less features but seems to get mail instantly, also.