Comments on: Gmail IMAP Help http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/ Technology News Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: IMAP ? ?? ??? « Hamed http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123334 IMAP ? ?? ??? « Hamed Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:53:40 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123334 [...] ??????? IMAP ?? ??? [...] [...] ??????? IMAP ?? ??? [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123180 Ryan Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:46:57 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123180 [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-123022" rel="nofollow">Brock wrote:</a><blockquote>Anything about contact sync?</blockquote>[/div] There has been no news about contact syncing in Gmail yet, but that might be something they'll work on in the future. Right now all you can do is export your contacts and import them to/from Gmail. Brock wrote:
Anything about contact sync?

There has been no news about contact syncing in Gmail yet, but that might be something they’ll work on in the future. Right now all you can do is export your contacts and import them to/from Gmail.

]]> By: Brock http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123022 Brock Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:41:41 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-123022 Anything about contact sync? Anything about contact sync?

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-121219 Ryan Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:46:37 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-121219 [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120967" rel="nofollow">Tinhed wrote:</a><blockquote>My Language is set to English(UK). does this mean i wont be able to access IMAP? thats very cruel on google’s part. Since from when did all gmail users started living in the states?</blockquote>[/div] I'm not quite sure. Google just did a post saying that they have finished enabling IMAP support for everyone. So if you don't have it by now then you may not be getting it. I just grabbed that info from the Gmail Help page. Tinhed wrote:
My Language is set to English(UK). does this mean i wont be able to access IMAP? thats very cruel on google’s part. Since from when did all gmail users started living in the states?

I’m not quite sure. Google just did a post saying that they have finished enabling IMAP support for everyone. So if you don’t have it by now then you may not be getting it. I just grabbed that info from the Gmail Help page.

]]> By: Tinhed http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120967 Tinhed Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:52:12 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120967 My Language is set to English(UK). does this mean i wont be able to access IMAP? thats very cruel on google's part. Since from when did all gmail users started living in the states? My Language is set to English(UK). does this mean i wont be able to access IMAP? thats very cruel on google’s part. Since from when did all gmail users started living in the states?

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120958 Ryan Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:08:00 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120958 Yahoo! Mail Beta wasn't in Beta for over 3 years though. ;) But it did spend a considerable amount of time in Beta. I think it was like a year, or maybe a bit less? Yahoo! Mail Beta wasn’t in Beta for over 3 years though. ;) But it did spend a considerable amount of time in Beta. I think it was like a year, or maybe a bit less?

]]> By: netster007x http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120901 netster007x Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:58:04 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120901 Actually, Yahoo! Mail was in beta until just the most recent release, so that's not really the problem. Personally, I think the Yahoo! Mail team is way too cautious with releases. It kind of impacts the joy of releases, because everyone's saying, "When the heck will I get it???" <A HREF=http://ubanimator.com><IMG SRC=http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4996/userbar530412mw5.gif> Actually, Yahoo! Mail was in beta until just the most recent release, so that’s not really the problem. Personally, I think the Yahoo! Mail team is way too cautious with releases. It kind of impacts the joy of releases, because everyone’s saying, “When the heck will I get it???”

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120864 Ryan Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:37:22 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120864 [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120815" rel="nofollow">Asimov wrote:</a><blockquote>imap is interesting but with an gmail account and thousands of messages, each sync with the system takes a big amount of time (especially with outlook 2007). Have you experienced the same issue?</blockquote>[/div] I only have a few hundred emails that I've saved, and it doesn't seem to take that long with Thunderbird. [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120818" rel="nofollow">Anonymous wrote:</a><blockquote>If I set up an email client (i.e. Thunderbird) with IMAP, will it actually download email onto my local computer or does it access my mail remotely? Basically, if I’m offline, can I still access my IMAP email?</blockquote>[/div] It will download all of the email locally, but how much it downloads can be dependent on how you setup Thunderbird. You can have it just download the headers, which are the subject, sender, etc... or you can have it download the entire emails. [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120822" rel="nofollow">netster007x wrote:</a><blockquote>Wow, full rollout in 1 week. That’s pretty quick. Yahoo! Mail usually takes 2-3months before new versions/builds are out for everybody. It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users. <a href="http://ubanimator.com" rel="nofollow"></a></blockquote>[/div] And Gmail's still in Beta, so if they incur any problems they have an excuse. ;) [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120827" rel="nofollow">Inferno_str1ke wrote:</a><blockquote>[div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120822" rel="nofollow">netster007x wrote:</a><blockquote> It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.</blockquote>[/div]Does Yahoo! Mail really have _that_ many more users? I mean, it’s no way near as good as Gmail and isn’t it still ad-supported? Maybe they just take so long to roll-out new features so they can see what Google are doing with their mail system and take appropriate action to copy it.</blockquote>[/div] Gmail is pretty low on the totem pole right now simply because they've only been around for a few years. Asimov wrote:
imap is interesting but with an gmail account and thousands of messages, each sync with the system takes a big amount of time (especially with outlook 2007). Have you experienced the same issue?

I only have a few hundred emails that I’ve saved, and it doesn’t seem to take that long with Thunderbird.

Anonymous wrote:
If I set up an email client (i.e. Thunderbird) with IMAP, will it actually download email onto my local computer or does it access my mail remotely? Basically, if I’m offline, can I still access my IMAP email?

It will download all of the email locally, but how much it downloads can be dependent on how you setup Thunderbird. You can have it just download the headers, which are the subject, sender, etc… or you can have it download the entire emails.

netster007x wrote:
Wow, full rollout in 1 week. That’s pretty quick. Yahoo! Mail usually takes 2-3months before new versions/builds are out for everybody. It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.

And Gmail’s still in Beta, so if they incur any problems they have an excuse. ;)

Inferno_str1ke wrote:
netster007x wrote:
It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.

Does Yahoo! Mail really have _that_ many more users? I mean, it’s no way near as good as Gmail and isn’t it still ad-supported? Maybe they just take so long to roll-out new features so they can see what Google are doing with their mail system and take appropriate action to copy it.

Gmail is pretty low on the totem pole right now simply because they’ve only been around for a few years.

]]> By: netster007x http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120849 netster007x Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:21:33 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120849 Well, as far as market share, Y!Mail is top dog. Gmail is at the bottom, largely because of it's relatively recent birth. People tend to stick with their Email provider. Gmail does offer many normally paid features for free, like POP/IMAP and forwarding, but after using Y!, Gmail's web interface looks dated. Yahoo! uses drag&drop, tabs, right-click menus, keyboard shortcuts, a preview pane. It's really a desktop mail client in your browser. It's also got a ton of features like a feed reader, calendar strip, intelligent Email address/street address/date... shortcuts, weather, integrated IM and SMS, a beautiful interface, and with all this it even holds it's speed. I remember when Gmail loyalists would always site storage quota, but it looks like those days are over now that Y! gives unlimited storage for free! As far as ads, both Y!Mail and Gmail are ad supported. And, getting rid of the ads in Gmail costs more than double what you pay w/ Y!Mail. Also, it's not that they take a long time to make new features. Y!Mail has been getting more and more features every few months. Far more often than Gmail gets updated. What I was saying is the period between when a new version is released to the first set of servers and the last set of servers is massive. Still, it's the same version being released, so them copying Gmail w/in the period is impossible. Y!Mail rarely even does copy Gmail. OK, there's the built in IM but that's about it. All the other things I mentioned above are straight Y! innovations that Gmail doesn't have. Well, as far as market share, Y!Mail is top dog. Gmail is at the bottom, largely because of it’s relatively recent birth. People tend to stick with their Email provider. Gmail does offer many normally paid features for free, like POP/IMAP and forwarding, but after using Y!, Gmail’s web interface looks dated. Yahoo! uses drag&drop, tabs, right-click menus, keyboard shortcuts, a preview pane. It’s really a desktop mail client in your browser. It’s also got a ton of features like a feed reader, calendar strip, intelligent Email address/street address/date… shortcuts, weather, integrated IM and SMS, a beautiful interface, and with all this it even holds it’s speed. I remember when Gmail loyalists would always site storage quota, but it looks like those days are over now that Y! gives unlimited storage for free!

As far as ads, both Y!Mail and Gmail are ad supported. And, getting rid of the ads in Gmail costs more than double what you pay w/ Y!Mail.

Also, it’s not that they take a long time to make new features. Y!Mail has been getting more and more features every few months. Far more often than Gmail gets updated. What I was saying is the period between when a new version is released to the first set of servers and the last set of servers is massive. Still, it’s the same version being released, so them copying Gmail w/in the period is impossible.

Y!Mail rarely even does copy Gmail. OK, there’s the built in IM but that’s about it. All the other things I mentioned above are straight Y! innovations that Gmail doesn’t have.

]]> By: Sync Your Gmail and Thunderbird with IMAP http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120836 Sync Your Gmail and Thunderbird with IMAP Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:51:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120836 [...] explains why you should and how to go about setting it up. Ryan at CyberNet News also posted some additional information about Gmail and IMAP. Digg This! Stumble it! Add to Del.icio.us Google Bookmark It! Share [...] [...] explains why you should and how to go about setting it up. Ryan at CyberNet News also posted some additional information about Gmail and IMAP. Digg This! Stumble it! Add to Del.icio.us Google Bookmark It! Share [...]

]]> By: Inferno_str1ke http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120827 Inferno_str1ke Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:08:18 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120827 [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120822" rel="nofollow">netster007x wrote:</a><blockquote> It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.</blockquote>[/div] Does Yahoo! Mail really have _that_ many more users? I mean, it's no way near as good as Gmail and isn't it still ad-supported? Maybe they just take so long to roll-out new features so they can see what Google are doing with their mail system and take appropriate action to copy it. netster007x wrote:
It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.

Does Yahoo! Mail really have _that_ many more users? I mean, it’s no way near as good as Gmail and isn’t it still ad-supported? Maybe they just take so long to roll-out new features so they can see what Google are doing with their mail system and take appropriate action to copy it.

]]> By: irian http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120823 irian Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:29:35 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120823 [div id=commentquote]<a href="#comment-120818" rel="nofollow">Anonymous wrote:</a><blockquote>Basically, if I’m offline, can I still access my IMAP email?</blockquote>[/div] You can select specific folders for offline access, and you will be able to access your IMAP mail while offline. Anonymous wrote:
Basically, if I’m offline, can I still access my IMAP email?

You can select specific folders for offline access, and you will be able to access your IMAP mail while offline.

]]> By: netster007x http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120822 netster007x Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:20:28 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120822 Wow, full rollout in 1 week. That's pretty quick. Yahoo! Mail usually takes 2-3months before new versions/builds are out for everybody. It's probably partly due to Yahoo!'s giant amount of users. <a HREF="http://ubanimator.com" rel="nofollow"> Wow, full rollout in 1 week. That’s pretty quick. Yahoo! Mail usually takes 2-3months before new versions/builds are out for everybody. It’s probably partly due to Yahoo!’s giant amount of users.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120818 Anonymous Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:44:59 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120818 If I set up an email client (i.e. Thunderbird) with IMAP, will it actually download email onto my local computer or does it access my mail remotely? Basically, if I'm offline, can I still access my IMAP email? If I set up an email client (i.e. Thunderbird) with IMAP, will it actually download email onto my local computer or does it access my mail remotely? Basically, if I’m offline, can I still access my IMAP email?

]]> By: Asimov http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120815 Asimov Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:31:05 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/29/gmail-imap-help/#comment-120815 imap is interesting but with an gmail account and thousands of messages, each sync with the system takes a big amount of time (especially with outlook 2007). Have you experienced the same issue? imap is interesting but with an gmail account and thousands of messages, each sync with the system takes a big amount of time (especially with outlook 2007). Have you experienced the same issue?

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