In part of my posting about the importance of backups and restoring my own machine I have come across a few tips, some obvious, that I wanted to share. I now use IMAP for all my email addresses and server settings on email clients. I do not think I could handle moving back to POP3. I made this changeover about 8 months ago and was reminded of it recently when I had to reinstall Thunderbird this week (my email client).
When using POP3, clients typically connect to the e-mail server briefly, only as long as it takes to download new messages. When using IMAP4, clients often stay connected as long as the user interface is active and download message content on demand. For users with many or large messages, this IMAP4 usage pattern can result in faster response times.
Now I just wish Gmail had support for IMAP. Routing emails through gmail is great – except when you have an address that does not get a lot of email the gmail system checks less frequently. I know this system of checks works well for spidering SERPS but I think it is a poor practice in use with email. I find myself going into the account settings and demanding a email check quite often. I wish there was a way to tell gmail to “check every 60 seconds” or something similar like most mail clients. The alternative of course would be to support IMAP 
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July 30th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Hey Eric – am I missing something or does gmail not already support IMAP?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
July 30th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Hey Eric – am I missing something or does gmail not already support IMAP?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
July 30th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Gmail already supports IMAP — I use it all the time; on my PC, Mac, and iPhone.
Go to Settings (upper right corner), click Forwarding and POP/IMAP (tab #5 in the settings pane) and then enable IMAP in the bottom.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Gmail already supports IMAP — I use it all the time; on my PC, Mac, and iPhone.
Go to Settings (upper right corner), click Forwarding and POP/IMAP (tab #5 in the settings pane) and then enable IMAP in the bottom.
July 30th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Hey Eric – am I missing something or does gmail not already support IMAP?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
July 30th, 2008 at 6:54 am
You are correct in that IMAP works for OUTGOING gmail – but it has no
support for INCOMING mail. Gmail goes out and “checks” for new mail ever
10,20,30, or 40 minutes depending on how much mail traffic I get. The more
frequent the mail, the more freuquent the checks. Outbound is great – but I
want to check all my email online
July 30th, 2008 at 6:54 am
You are correct in that IMAP works for OUTGOING gmail – but it has no
support for INCOMING mail. Gmail goes out and “checks” for new mail ever
10,20,30, or 40 minutes depending on how much mail traffic I get. The more
frequent the mail, the more freuquent the checks. Outbound is great – but I
want to check all my email online
July 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Figured I missed something there
I want the sameor at least “push gmail” – especially with support on the iphone <grins>
July 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Figured I missed something there
I want the sameor at least “push gmail” – especially with support on the iphone <grins>
July 30th, 2008 at 7:48 am
That would be a great feature. I hope they are working on something and
hopefully read posts and comments like these.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:48 am
That would be a great feature. I hope they are working on something and
hopefully read posts and comments like these.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Gmail already supports IMAP — I use it all the time; on my PC, Mac, and iPhone.
Go to Settings (upper right corner), click Forwarding and POP/IMAP (tab #5 in the settings pane) and then enable IMAP in the bottom.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
It certainly does. Unfortunately it does not support IMAP INCOMING emails.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
It certainly does. Unfortunately it does not support IMAP INCOMING emails.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am
You are correct in that IMAP works for OUTGOING gmail – but it has no
support for INCOMING mail. Gmail goes out and “checks” for new mail ever
10,20,30, or 40 minutes depending on how much mail traffic I get. The more
frequent the mail, the more freuquent the checks. Outbound is great – but I
want to check all my email online
July 30th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Figured I missed something there
I want the sameor at least “push gmail” – especially with support on the iphone <grins>
July 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am
That would be a great feature. I hope they are working on something and
hopefully read posts and comments like these.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:43 am
It certainly does. Unfortunately it does not support IMAP INCOMING emails.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I agree, IMAP is critical. Also important is secure IMAP and SMTP, if you work from public wifi like I often do… and for that matter, being able to send/receive large attachments. You wrote about Zimbra Desktop recently, we've been using Zimbra server which provides all that, plus shared/delegated calendars, contacts, etc… how did we live with POP, much less without syncing our iPhones over-the-air?
July 30th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I agree, IMAP is critical. Also important is secure IMAP and SMTP, if you work from public wifi like I often do… and for that matter, being able to send/receive large attachments. You wrote about Zimbra Desktop recently, we've been using Zimbra server which provides all that, plus shared/delegated calendars, contacts, etc… how did we live with POP, much less without syncing our iPhones over-the-air?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I agree, IMAP is critical. Also important is secure IMAP and SMTP, if you work from public wifi like I often do… and for that matter, being able to send/receive large attachments. You wrote about Zimbra Desktop recently, we've been using Zimbra server which provides all that, plus shared/delegated calendars, contacts, etc… how did we live with POP, much less without syncing our iPhones over-the-air?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Clear cut distinction between the two ..love that
July 30th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Clear cut distinction between the two ..love that
July 31st, 2008 at 1:29 am
Clear cut distinction between the two ..love that
July 31st, 2008 at 4:56 am
Do you ever find that IMAP times out annoyingly often? Gmail with POP3 is especially annoying given the conversation layout that they have. For a while, I was receiving a cabon copy of every reply I sent automatically (w/out bcc'ng).
July 31st, 2008 at 4:56 am
Do you ever find that IMAP times out annoyingly often? Gmail with POP3 is especially annoying given the conversation layout that they have. For a while, I was receiving a cabon copy of every reply I sent automatically (w/out bcc'ng).
July 31st, 2008 at 5:35 am
I agree and I am not sure how we lived without them.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:35 am
I agree and I am not sure how we lived without them.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:56 am
Do you ever find that IMAP times out annoyingly often? Gmail with POP3 is especially annoying given the conversation layout that they have. For a while, I was receiving a cabon copy of every reply I sent automatically (w/out bcc'ng).
July 31st, 2008 at 7:16 am
Yes, but I find that its faster than POP3. You can turn off the CC of every reply (if you are talking about on your blackberry) by setting up a filter to not capture emails SENT by you in your carrier login screen. Its a pain to setup but saves all those CC duplicate emails.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:16 am
Yes, but I find that its faster than POP3. You can turn off the CC of every reply (if you are talking about on your blackberry) by setting up a filter to not capture emails SENT by you in your carrier login screen. Its a pain to setup but saves all those CC duplicate emails.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:35 am
I agree and I am not sure how we lived without them.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Yes, but I find that its faster than POP3. You can turn off the CC of every reply (if you are talking about on your blackberry) by setting up a filter to not capture emails SENT by you in your carrier login screen. Its a pain to setup but saves all those CC duplicate emails.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Gmail does support IMAP. Check out http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
August 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Gmail does support IMAP. Check out http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
August 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Gmail does support IMAP. Check out http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl...
August 11th, 2008 at 6:53 am
True. But this is IMAP for Gmail outside Gmail. I want IMAP inside Gmail -
so I can view other email addresses in real time.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:53 am
True. But this is IMAP for Gmail outside Gmail. I want IMAP inside Gmail -
so I can view other email addresses in real time.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
True. But this is IMAP for Gmail outside Gmail. I want IMAP inside Gmail -
so I can view other email addresses in real time.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am
GMail does infact have a IMAP option you have to enable it
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk
August 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am
GMail does infact have a IMAP option you have to enable it
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk
August 13th, 2008 at 5:58 am
John,
What I want is gmail to have IMAP support within it for other email addresses. As you can see from the discussion thread I am not referring to external IMAP support. That is built in now and active. Checking other emails via gmail is slowed by the fact that you cannot control the frequency of new email checks.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:58 am
John,
What I want is gmail to have IMAP support within it for other email addresses. As you can see from the discussion thread I am not referring to external IMAP support. That is built in now and active. Checking other emails via gmail is slowed by the fact that you cannot control the frequency of new email checks.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:12 am
GMail does infact have a IMAP option you have to enable it
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk
August 13th, 2008 at 7:58 am
John,
What I want is gmail to have IMAP support within it for other email addresses. As you can see from the discussion thread I am not referring to external IMAP support. That is built in now and active. Checking other emails via gmail is slowed by the fact that you cannot control the frequency of new email checks.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
GMail does infact have a IMAP option you have to enable it
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk
August 13th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
John,
What I want is gmail to have IMAP support within it for other email addresses. As you can see from the discussion thread I am not referring to external IMAP support. That is built in now and active. Checking other emails via gmail is slowed by the fact that you cannot control the frequency of new email checks.