IMAP With Gmail
Sunday, October 28th, 2007One of the things I like about Gmail is that even ‘the good stuff’ comes for free. For instance, Yahoo! offers free email, but to have your email forwarded to other accounts automatically, you need to purchase a paid account. POP3 access (that allows users to download their messages using an email client like Thunderbird) is also a premium service. On the other hand, Gmail offers both these services for free.
There was a time when Yahoo! offered free mail forwarding and POP3 access, but they decided to discontinue those services several years ago. That was when I decided to switch to some other email service provider.
In the last few days, Google has started rolling out IMAP access for all accounts. To cut a long story short, IMAP is a better email protocol than POP3, thanks to improved folder management, message tasks and synchronization.
This service is being rolled out in stages, and I’m still waiting for it to be enabled for my email account. (Amongst a million users, what are the odds of being one of the first few to taste the new stuff?)
EDIT 2007-10-31 23:20 - I finally have it.
