{"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":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadsquad.com\/2007\/10\/23\/gmail-gets-imap\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and checked and, yes, it seems that after literally years of retarded obstinance, Google has finally enabled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imap\" target=\"_blank\">IMAP<\/a> for its GMail email service. I just checked and the option appears on the &#8220;Settings&#8221; tab. There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&amp;hl=en&amp;answer=75726\" target=\"_blank\">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&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Live_Hotmail\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.yahoo.com\/go\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo&#8217;s Go<\/a> client for mobiles is very slick and way, way ahead of any Google&#8217;s equivalent available offerings except, of course, the client-native Maps.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s usually as simple as drag&#8217;n&#8217;drop. But I have email archives going back to 1987 &#8211; I may be over GMail&#8217;s space limit. Maybe this is a plan to get people to pay for upgraded server space?archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}