Comments on: IMAP for Gmail http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Shead http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/comment-page-1/#comment-10393 Mark Shead Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:52:42 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/#comment-10393 @Arjun - I found the same thing when trying to set it up for one of my relatives. I know they are rolling it out, but it looks like it might be a few more weeks before everyone has it. I was just lucky to be in the first group I guess. They may be doing a small group at a time and then checking to make sure they don't run into any scaling problems IMAP will use significantly more server resources than POP3. @Jeff - I don't use the tags feature on Gmail. However I do use the Archive feature which takes items out of the inbox and puts them in the "All Mail" folder. This seems to be working ok, so I assumed the tags feature worked in the same manner. By the way, make sure you actually give the mail client time to sync with Gmail. Any change you make will happen locally first and then it will sync in the background. Depending on your settings this might happen in a few minutes, but it could be quite a bit longer. @Arjun – I found the same thing when trying to set it up for one of my relatives. I know they are rolling it out, but it looks like it might be a few more weeks before everyone has it. I was just lucky to be in the first group I guess. They may be doing a small group at a time and then checking to make sure they don’t run into any scaling problems IMAP will use significantly more server resources than POP3.

@Jeff – I don’t use the tags feature on Gmail. However I do use the Archive feature which takes items out of the inbox and puts them in the “All Mail” folder. This seems to be working ok, so I assumed the tags feature worked in the same manner.

By the way, make sure you actually give the mail client time to sync with Gmail. Any change you make will happen locally first and then it will sync in the background. Depending on your settings this might happen in a few minutes, but it could be quite a bit longer.

]]> By: Jeff Singfiel http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/comment-page-1/#comment-10142 Jeff Singfiel Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:39:22 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/#comment-10142 I've been experimenting with Gmail's IMAP on a secondary email account of mine. Though I read the same thing you mentioned, ala folder assignment and labeling, it doesn't seem to actually work. Have you tried this with success? I've sent mail to the IMAP address and then dragged it to a folder. On Gmail, the message isn't labeled at all. In the same way, I've labeled messages on Gmail, but not have the message foldered appropriately. Is this is working for you? Jeff I’ve been experimenting with Gmail’s IMAP on a secondary email account of mine. Though I read the same thing you mentioned, ala folder assignment and labeling, it doesn’t seem to actually work. Have you tried this with success?

I’ve sent mail to the IMAP address and then dragged it to a folder. On Gmail, the message isn’t labeled at all. In the same way, I’ve labeled messages on Gmail, but not have the message foldered appropriately.

Is this is working for you?

Jeff

]]> By: Arjun Muralidharan http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/comment-page-1/#comment-10100 Arjun Muralidharan Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:31:24 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/#comment-10100 The setting hasn't shown up on my Gmail yet, even after signing in fresh. I hope they roll it out everywhere soon. The setting hasn’t shown up on my Gmail yet, even after signing in fresh. I hope they roll it out everywhere soon.

]]> By: Emre Sahin http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/comment-page-1/#comment-9938 Emre Sahin Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:17:19 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/imap-for-gmail/371/#comment-9938 Though using IMAP may be a good option, I don't think switching to Gmail entirely is a reliable option. In the past, due to a conflict with Google Desktop and Gmail in my professor's computer, he (and all Gmail accounts he invited, including mine) lost contact without any information. Only by contacting a person inside Google we were able to reopen the accounts. I never use Gmail more than a backup service since then. If you have valuable e-mails, you may want to work them through Gmail, but don't let it be your sole way to receive and send them. Though using IMAP may be a good option, I don’t think switching to Gmail entirely is a reliable option. In the past, due to a conflict with Google Desktop and Gmail in my professor’s computer, he (and all Gmail accounts he invited, including mine) lost contact without any information. Only by contacting a person inside Google we were able to reopen the accounts. I never use Gmail more than a backup service since then.

If you have valuable e-mails, you may want to work them through Gmail, but don’t let it be your sole way to receive and send them.

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