Google Launched IMAP Support for Gmail

Gmail may bring IMAP support

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However, when waiting for an e-mail tonight, I happened to pop into my GMail settings to find something quite impressive: the section that deals with forwarding mail and POP access was renamed “Forwarding and POP/IMAP.” [Read more]

Many users Report at Download Squad blog of having the feature enabled at their Email Account...

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Supported IMAP Client List

Getting Started with IMAP for Gmail

Personally I would say that unless there is folder support to Gmail like Yahoo / Rediff or other email srvice this feature is quite useless to me

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Awesome,Just what i was lookin for.
Hope my account gets it soon

Regards,
ray

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cool thankx for the info

A

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hey it's activated in my acc...

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which one is better ? POP3 or IMAP? havent checked the difference of those yet , I have been using POP3 a lot though.

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In POP the mail is downloaded from the server onto your account.
In IMAP the mail is checked from the server itself.
Therby meaning no waiting for attachments to download before you read the mail.Also it means if u mark a mail read at office it stays read when u check again at home.

Regards,
ray

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Thanks for clarifying... still its not enabled un my account.

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Charan bro, POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3, its just like a regular post in which you will recieve everything at one time.

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^^ Giga I know POP3 Protocol,I have been using it since ages. only thing is that I havent used IMAP so I dono about its features

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IMAP is very useful in mobile phone too. We need not download everything, can set like show only subject or part of text, so we can open only those we need. No need to download everything as in POP

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lol bro, IMAP- Instant Message Access Protocol. . . . raven has already explained it. . . though i've something more to say . . . In IMAP, you have to refresh the page or get back to that page from another to see the new message just like how forums work. . . .

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those who have doubt about IMAP or what exactly is it, please refer here, *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol

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^ wow. . . . who wrote that wiki article? its awesome

A

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coooooooool
thanks for info

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ax3 said:
cool ......... bt HTTP would have been much better .......

What do u mean ??

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not a vendor independent format is it?
btw, you can do the same thing in imap also.

T

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Thanks for the info

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Oh man!! this is cool. I have to use this. thanks.

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I was just wondering how many of us have the feature enable at their Account ??

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@ax3

Please correct me if I am wrong. But as far as I know HTTP is slow compared to POP or IMAP. Yes, Hotmail support it. And yahoo POPs (the software which used to download yahoo emails in outlook express / TB) also use HTTP email internally (which makes retreiving emails slow)

Another thing is, you can use Windows Live Mail - for hotmail. It is almost = Outlook Express and you need not pay for using the email client. That is sure a good option (Thanks to GX_Saurav for giving more info on that) for hotmail users.

Whatever it is, Gmail rox

No doubt in that. With so many features, pretty neat interface (yahoo is cluttered) and a whopping 4 GB ! Nothing is gonna beat Gmail for the time being...

M

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Wow IMAP support. Though it's not enabled on my account yet

Time to reconfigure my mail settings again.

Choto Cheeta said:
Personally I would say that unless there is folder support to Gmail like Yahoo / Rediff or other email srvice this feature is quite useless to me

If you use labels properly they can work as well, if not better, as folders. In my case labels help me much more as I get quite a few mails that I'd like to post in 2 sections or sometimes even more. This cannot be always achieved with folders.

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wats the benefit of IMAP other than the fact that it will star the mails u star in a client or mark them as read if u do so in a client

S

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Trashing it on your client will reflect as trashing it on your webmail... Saves the job of deleting (junk) mail twice...

Arun

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For me - I configured my official email and personal email (both support IMAP - my own sites) in mobile phone. And without going to web interface, I get the mail list, subject and part of header (if needed) quickly. I can click the email to read if it is needed. And unlike in POP I do not have to wait to download all emails.

S

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I got the IAMP support enabled for my account. How to use it I don't know. Also I currently use POP3, so I don't think I will need it currently.

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That would be great. BTW, IMAP has not been activated for me yet

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Yay! IMAP is activated on my account.
This rocks.

Regards,
ray

Choto Cheeta was right.... IMAP is finally launched!

Google has launched a new IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) service for Gmail that will allow users to sync Gmail with their e-mail clients.

"It keeps the same information synced across all devices so that whatever you do in one place shows up everywhere else you might access your e-mail," said David Murray, associate product manager, in a blog post. "For example, I can read an e-mail in Gmail, then move it to the 'Starred' folder on my iPhone, then archive it by moving it to 'All Mail' in Thunderbird, then see all of those changes on my BlackBerry or any of [these] devices for that matter."

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hey Giga this is already been discussed..

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71394

BTW Its still not enabled for me

^ Bro that thread says.. Gmail may bring... but its launched officially today

yeah, got it in my a/c today. Lets see how it works.

me Still waiting for IMAP

^ its activated for me

No IMAP for me

Guys by default I see IMAP active for all users who are using POP also

so try and activate that also follow this process to see if Google IMAP server os responding to ur accout request or not

Supported IMAP Client List

Getting Started with IMAP for Gmail

^^not true. My pop was activated but imap came on only today

@ilugd

so as mine in other accounts of my email

M

I am using IMAP curently and am happy with the differences. I see all my labels, all my mails being marked read/unread on the server rather than just on my PC.

Still not for me...

OK a should wait till morning.

N

Choto Cheeta said:
Guys by default I see IMAP active for all users who are using POP also so try and activate that also follow this process to see if Google IMAP server os responding to ur accout request or not

Supported IMAP Client List

Getting Started with IMAP for Gmail

That is not true. IMAP is not available to me, I used your trick and it said IMAP not available for your account. So will have to wait longer. :-x

It'd still be worth the wait, I say.

IMAP was enabled for all 5 of my accounts ( including 2 with Google Apps )

It was not enabled for me last week, but checked today morning and I see its enabled

Already using POP for gmail, will check the imap soon.

Enabled for me. Wohoo

Google's also revamping gmail totally!
*googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/next-version-of-gmail-will-be-faster.html

My friend got the new one! Waiting for it myself

UI. I want a better UI. Not bloated, but just a bit better than the current one.

And I hope a better compatibilty with Opera

it took me 3 hours to get the headers for 3500 messages, and none of them are available offline in outlook. Guess i will have to shift to thunderbird

Hmm. the URL of gmail has changed at least: mine's showing as *mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox

Also there are some pleasant UI changes like the chat window and such...

^^ Congrats! You've got the new Gmail

The URL structure is similar to what we see on google reader.. Im still waiting for mine to change

mine's this
*mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&ik=6...............

wtf? imap is only enabled for 1 of my accounts which i rarely use.

N

Finally enabled on both my gmail accounts.

*googlemill.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-rollout-gmail-20.html

Google now lets you add users from other IM networks too

its not available for mine, though i m using POP3 since toooo long :-(