I currently use my gmail account with Kmail using dIMAP on openSUSE 11.0 running on KDE 3.5.10. I at times thought of moving to straight IMAP, but I loved having the offline features. However, this was painfully slow since it had to download everything twice .... more
Some of the tweaks that arrived with the launch of Gmail Labs are fairly silly (Mail Goggles and Old Snakey spring to mind), but a new option that arrived Thursday makes it increasingly apparent that Google is doing something right with the e-mail service.
From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes...Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP.
Every time when I need to set up my GMail accout on Thunderbird I'm looking for this.. :)) That's the best one up to now I've seen, or at least as good as to be Dugg. Digg it whoever needs to do it as well and have it in your lists
IMAP in Gmail is a godsend feature for people who live life inside Microsoft Outlook. outlook gmailYou read messages offline in Microsoft Outlook and they are automatically marked as read on Gmail server the next time you go online. Similarly, when you delete messages in your Gmail Inbox, they disappear from your Outlook Inbox as well.
The new Peek mobile e-mail device has a list of approved e-mail providers, and if your personal or business e-mail server isn't on it, you won't be able to access it by simply putting in your POP or IMAP mail server address.