Google Mail.. Get IMAP in Mail 3.0 (Leopard)

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Hey all,

I have an old school "@gmail.com" Google Mail account, and have been waiting for IMAP support to be enabled on my account for aaaaaaaaages, to no avail.

Anyway, after getting my iPhone I have been interested in getting IMAP working for the account so I set about Googling' my heart out today, and I found a solution that enabled IMAP on my account with a click of a button :D

Anyway, here's how I did it..

# Visit www.google.co.uk
# In the top right, click to sign in to your account
# When you've signed in you should be re-directed to Google automatically
# Click "My Account" and change your "personal information" settings so that your primary language is English (US)
# Open up your Google Mail page (visit mail.google.com) and check your POP settings page.. you now have IMAP!
# You may have to additionally change your mail language to English (US) if IMAP hasn't appeared by now
# Once the settings show that IMAP is enabled, go back to Personal settings and change your account back to English (UK)

Obviously, if you're using POP in Mail then you may want to delete you account, and reconfigure it for IMAP.. a little tip, don't set it up automatically, it will assume you want to make a POP account, you're going to have to do it manually.

For instructions on how to configure IMAP, click here :)

Enjoy!
 
I discovered this about a month back on some other site but I assumed it was widely known so didn't post it here!

Definitely is a handy job - all we need now is yahoo to do the same.
 
The bulletin I read gave the impression that other languages would follow US a few days later in having IMAP enabled. Obviously hadn't happened. I did try this briefly, but something caused me to change it back. Now I can't remember what that was :(
 
imap allows acess to your mails which are always kept on the server so if you connect from a number of machines they always are in sync. With pop emails are downloaded to your local folders. If you mark a message as unread then go to a different machine it will redownload the message. Way more advantages than that but thats a brief example. Google for pop v imap and youl find plenty more
 
It definitely is the way to go - Keeping the emails on the server is just so much better than downloading them locally - especially if something crashes and you lose mails. An personal example is that I access imap mails using apple mail at home... when at work I can access my accounts webmail. If I send/receive at work then when I return home the emails in apple mail are immediately in sync with the server. Dead handy.

http://apps.carleton.ca/web/connect/email/vs_types.php
 
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IMAP's become prominent now that server space isn't such an issue and companies can afford to offer vast amounts available freely over the Internet. Previously, ISPs didn't want their servers clogging up with every user's e-mails. Annoyingly, they still don't, so I still have to use POP for an active ISP e-mail address, whereas I use IMAP for about 5 other accounts.
 
I originally posted it because it was annoying me to use my iPhone in work, then going home and having to delete / receive all the same mail.
 
No problem mate.

Glad I could help you guys out.. I've mooched many a' tip from the crowd here :cool:
 
Wow, I can't believe people didn't know this already, I have been using it ever since i moved my hosting to dreamhost and my email to google. I just assumed every one knew it was possible.
EVH said:
Hey all,

I have an old school "@gmail.com" Google Mail account, and have been waiting for IMAP support to be enabled on my account for aaaaaaaaages, to no avail.

Anyway, after getting my iPhone I have been interested in getting IMAP working for the account so I set about Googling' my heart out today, and I found a solution that enabled IMAP on my account with a click of a button :D

Anyway, here's how I did it..

# Visit www.google.co.uk
# In the top right, click to sign in to your account
# When you've signed in you should be re-directed to Google automatically
# Click "My Account" and change your "personal information" settings so that your primary language is English (US)
# Open up your Google Mail page (visit mail.google.com) and check your POP settings page.. you now have IMAP!
# You may have to additionally change your mail language to English (US) if IMAP hasn't appeared by now
# Once the settings show that IMAP is enabled, go back to Personal settings and change your account back to English (UK)

Obviously, if you're using POP in Mail then you may want to delete you account, and reconfigure it for IMAP.. a little tip, don't set it up automatically, it will assume you want to make a POP account, you're going to have to do it manually.

For instructions on how to configure IMAP, click here :)

Enjoy!
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I knew IMAP was available, I just didn't know there was a way to "bring" it to yourself, so to speak.

I'd been waiting months to have it enabled on my account, so it was a shock when I enabled it myself :D
 
I enabled it myself the other month, someone posted to change the language in GD, so I did. Although, changing back to English (UK) turns it back off. :/
 
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