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

[Deleted member 651465]

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

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!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

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.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

No problem mate.

Glad I could help you guys out.. I've mooched many a' tip from the crowd here

 

[Deleted member 651465]

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

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Racism.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

IMAP is great. I use it for my uni email as well. Means I always have access, however, using that as an argument against pop is a little weak is it not, as you can simply click leave messages on server in your email client whilst using pop.

Yes, but those messages that you delete (on a phone, for example) when using POP will remain on the server until you manually delete them from another device.