{"id":2780,"date":"2007-10-23T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T04:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/23\/20\/29\/google-got-imap\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T04:44:43","slug":"google-got-imap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/10\/23\/20\/29\/google-got-imap\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Got IMAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this<\/a> and checked and, yes, it seems that after literally years of retarded obstinance, Google has finally enabled IMAP<\/a> for its GMail email service. I just checked and the option appears on the “Settings” tab. There’s HowTo<\/a>s here. Finally this will make using GMail on the mobile less annoying by reducing the number of duplicate entries. Maybe this is a result of competition from Microsoft’s new Live Mail<\/a> (or whatever) which, after I went through a tedious upgrade process, actually seemed to have some very cool integration *and* 5GB of storage. And Yahoo’s Go<\/a> client for mobiles is very slick and way, way ahead of any Google’s equivalent available offerings except, of course, the client-native Maps.<\/p>\n

Of course, a new issue I face now is that, with IMAP, a mail server behaves more like a folder store in that you can copy messages to and from it. So I could import all my old email into GMail, finally, without having to fake it with a spoofed POP server as some crazy people have done. It’s usually as simple as drag’n’drop. But I have email archives going back to 1987 – I may be over GMail’s space limit. Maybe this is a plan to get people to pay for upgraded server space?archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw this and checked and, yes, it seems that after literally years of retarded obstinance, Google has finally enabled IMAP for its GMail email service. I just checked and the option appears on the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[185,182,186,183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-google","category-imap","category-microsoft","category-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t