Gmail gets IMAP?? What the hell took so long.
UPDATE: Well, it looks like Gmail does support IDLE. Super! It doesn’t support the /Recent flag. Although, to be honest, I’m not sure if that’s a big deal or not. Sadly, it still hasn’t rolled out to my account.
Wow. I tried logging out and logging back into my gmail account, but sadly the no magic. Apparently, though, Google is rolling out IMAP to the masses and it your account could’ve gotten the hook up already! (via df)
Man, I need to think about this. That may be all I need to switch my business mail off my own servers, as far as I can see, that was the only thing stopping me. IMAP, Google with a little Postini thrown in there? $50/person/yr? Seems like a good deal to me.
Did you get it already? I wonder if they’re supporting IMAP Idle. Not that it matters seeing as how Apple hasn’t seen fit to support Idle for anyone other than Yahoo. Grumble grumble.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I feel this is a much faster move to integrate Google Apps into existing mail platforms. Without spending resources to update Gmail with AJAX features to simulate and work like what the end users are already using, they push right to the top with functionality.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Frank, good point. For those who want Postini and no hassle mail (who doesn’t??) GMail is now a real contender. I wonder how many people were waiting for this and how many they lost to Yahoo because they didn’t have it. It was a really weird omission.