IMAP or POP?

Mr Green · 2007-10-24 14:52:41

Currently using POP with gmail to get my messages in Thunderbird now gmail supports IMAP just wondered if I should change over to it?

Or does it not make any difference?

pressh · 2007-10-24 15:30:23

Great, now I just have to wait until my account gets imap support

About your question...I guess it's time to change over to IMAP. For the difference between the two, read: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ … swer=75725

Mr Green · 2007-10-24 15:43:26

thanks man... go & check again you may be lucky lol

byte · 2007-10-24 16:00:45

POP: You download all your mail to your local computer and handle it offline.
IMAP: Mail is managed by the server and stays online.

dolby · 2007-10-24 16:15:38

yay free imap

Ramses de Norre · 2007-10-24 17:45:23

How do you now whether you can use imap? When it's an option in your preferences? I'd really like to switch to imap but my preferences only show options for pop...

Why don't they make it available to everyone at once?

Mikko777 · 2007-10-24 18:24:02

byte wrote:

POP: You download all your mail to your local computer and handle it offline.
IMAP: Mail is managed by the server and stays online.

Yes gmail is great, first gmail fetches my schoolmail to gmail folder, then I use evolution to imap the both accounts to homepc

Only bad thing with imap is that you need to delete posts manually and sometimes on many places
But it does work as backup of sorts.

pressh · 2007-10-24 19:09:06

Ramses de Norre wrote:

How do you now whether you can use imap? When it's an option in your preferences? I'd really like to switch to imap but my preferences only show options for pop...
Why don't they make it available to everyone at once?

I guess it's just a matter of time before all accounts are updated. I have 2 gmail accounts, one is updated already, the other is not. So just cross your fingers and hope it happens sooner than later

[edit] yes it indeed shows up in preferences where there is/was an option for pop

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shining · 2007-10-24 19:25:16

pressh wrote:

Ramses de Norre wrote:
How do you now whether you can use imap? When it's an option in your preferences? I'd really like to switch to imap but my preferences only show options for pop...
Why don't they make it available to everyone at once?
I guess it's just a matter of time before all accounts are updated. I have 2 gmail accounts, one is updated already, the other is not. So just cross your fingers and hope it happens sooner than later

Same here, Though it's the one I use less that got it first.

[edit] yes it indeed shows up in preferences where there is/was an option for pop

I had to set the gmail in english us first to see it in the account where it got enabled.
The other languages will probably come later

scj · 2007-10-25 07:28:09

Oh, this is awesome! They don't seem to have gotten around to enable it on my account yet, but I am giddy with anticipation

.:B:. · 2007-10-25 08:06:56

If your Gmail language is English, it should work . Mine is in Dutch, and IMAP is not present, but when I revert to English (U.S.), I get the IMAP option.

dolby · 2007-10-25 11:02:03

the english language thing is entirely untrue, at least judging from my accounts. none has enabled imap yet..

shining · 2007-10-25 11:33:04

dolby wrote:

the english language thing is entirely untrue, at least judging from my accounts. none has enabled imap yet..

Hm, I'm not sure you got it
In french, my 2 accounts don't have the imap option.
In english, only one of the account has it.

So just putting the interface in english doesn't work in every cases, Only for the accounts where it was enabled.

dolby · 2007-10-25 12:19:54

shining wrote:

dolby wrote:
the english language thing is entirely untrue, at least judging from my accounts. none has enabled imap yet..
Hm, I'm not sure you got it
In french, my 2 accounts don't have the imap option.
In english, only one of the account has it.
So just putting the interface in english doesn't work in every cases, Only for the accounts where it was enabled.

yes i do get it.
all my email accounts on any provider has always been in english, so from what i can tell the language setting doesnt matter. it was just that some accounts are already done and others are being done. not that important anyway. we've lived without imap in gmail for years, we can all wait some more.
btw nice to see a corporation giving away free imap.
next thing i expect to see is folder support in its users pages
in due time maybe even an os to replace windows
well done google

theringmaster · 2007-10-25 18:20:24

My gmail got updated, I use the new imap feature in thunderbird (Mail/News) and it is great. Does anyone know how Kmail and Thunderbird handle imap differently?

pressh · 2007-10-25 20:04:20

theringmaster wrote:

Does anyone know how Kmail and Thunderbird handle imap differently?

They do ? I always thought that all IMAP implementations are more or less the same.

Damnshock · 2007-10-25 21:17:18

theringmaster wrote:

My gmail got updated, I use the new imap feature in thunderbird (Mail/News) and it is great. Does anyone know how Kmail and Thunderbird handle imap differently?

How? or you mean why? I'm not sure to understand your question...

iphitus · 2007-10-26 00:45:45

imap's awesome if you use more than one computer. I download all my email addresses to my dreamhost account, and can then access it either with squirrelmail or imap from anywhere and any computer without worrying about any synchronisation issues or losing mail.

James

.:B:. · 2007-10-26 06:28:23

dolby wrote:

shining wrote:
dolby wrote:
the english language thing is entirely untrue, at least judging from my accounts. none has enabled imap yet..
Hm, I'm not sure you got it
In french, my 2 accounts don't have the imap option.
In english, only one of the account has it.
So just putting the interface in english doesn't work in every cases, Only for the accounts where it was enabled.
yes i do get it.
all my email accounts on any provider has always been in english, so from what i can tell the language setting doesnt matter.

One experience does not count for all. Don't generalise please.

It does matter . I got 3 Gmail accounts, if I keep all of them in my native language, none offers IMAP support. If i revert them to English (U.S.), two out of three offer IMAP support. I know other people have the same experience. Some accounts simply seem not to support IMAP yet. It looks arbitrary - it probably is - but I suppose this is just Google testing the waters.

N30N · 2007-10-26 13:05:26

dolby wrote:

the english language thing is entirely untrue

While you may also need to wait for you account to support the feature... I can confirm that is is in fact true at least here. Change from English (UK) to English (US) and it shows up, change back to English UK and the option disappeared.

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.:B:. · 2007-10-26 14:52:10

For all the sceptics: read this stuff from Google theirselves.

dolby · 2007-10-26 15:56:40

right, this issue evolved to a serious debate of some sort when it shouldnt but tell google that my accounts have always been english us and they re updating ~1/per day to imap. theres 1 left to update. so from tomorrow i wont post again in this thread anymore

Mr Green · 2007-10-26 18:01:43

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to- … 314574.php

may help

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