Another issue is the way drafts are managed. Mail saves a modified draft every 30" on the server (if you use an IMAP folder for drafts), and each obsolete version is deleted. Most IMAP severs simply ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Google's email platform doesn't have to be Web-based. You can configure Gmail to work in your office with Outlook or Outlook Express by using either POP or IMAP to send and receive messages with your ...

It appears that Google is having major issues with their email server. In the past 15 minutes, I received a few phones, tons of twits, and found a fast growing Google Groups thread about Google ...

There's no word yet on the official schedule or road map for IMAP support in Gmail. Google appears to be doing a silent rollout of this feature. Some users already have it, but others don't. There’s ...

As you learned yesterday, working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail’s Web-based interface. A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or ...

With Gmail's adoption of IMAP, one of electronic messaging's best-kept secrets has been thrust suddenly into the spotlight. But IMAP's inventor says the move, while overdue, doesn't deserve the ...

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). On affected ...

One of the nicest things about IMAP in Gmail—which can download and upload messages to the server, versus POP's download-only—is that you can drag and drop folders of messages into Gmail using any ...

Eureka! GMail has gained IMAP support, one of the most requested features for Google's web-based e-mail service. More than storage space or other features, free web-based IMAP access pushes GMail over ...

If you rely on Google's email server, be it Gmail or Google Apps, you may have noticed a major issue with connecting via the IMAP server. As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google's IMAP server ...

If you've tried using Gmail on an iPhone you've probably been frustrated. Copies of sent and received emails end up in your inbox and read emails aren't synced to the server, so if left unchecked the ...