IMAP on Gmail

I have to say this has being a godsend! Gmail has finally broken the biggest hurdle in regards to email for me. IMAP is a godsend for many of us. I leave the official Gmail Blog to give you the details

“For the past few years, we’ve offered POP access, which is similar to IMAP but lacks one critical feature: your changes made on other devices aren’t seen in Gmail when you log back in. Instead you are presented with a list of unread mail, and you must re-read and re-sort everything. For this reason, as soon as I started at Google, IMAP was one of the first things I asked about. Since then, I’ve seen countless blog posts, requests, chats, and just about everything else asking, “Are you guys ever going to do IMAP?” Well now I can say: Yes. Yes, we are doing IMAP. In fact, we are doing it for you for free on all devices and platforms.

As we roll out the feature over the next couple of days, you will be able to use Gmail at work, in your car, or just about anywhere on any device, and actions you take will be automatically synced with Gmail on the web (and remember it works the other way too: anything you do on the Web will be seen on your phone or in your mail client). Just click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab in your Gmail “Settings” and turn it on. (Psst. If you don’t see the “IMAP” in the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, then check back soon. We are giving it to users as fast as we can).”

Now it seriously might not look like much for people who have not used IMAP before. With IMAP, you can sync your email across your phone, any computer and have everything the way it was. You can even have 10-15 person working on a single email say “support@abc.com” and everyone can see the changes/replies. Now that is the power of IMAP. Is there any downside to this? Well if your internet connection is slow, you might experience some sort of issue, other than that, it is pretty much all groovy.

Here’s to Google!