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[PaulOBrien]

Google have activated IMAP access to GMail, opening the door to a vastly improved mail sync experience for mobile device users. I've set up GMail IMAP sync on my Pocket PC, and it works brilliantly!

There is a quirk in that the IMAP settings tab in GMail settings only currently appears to people with 'English (US)' set as their display language, but that's easily fixed! If, like me, you use English (UK) (or indeed any other language), simply log into GMail, change your display language to English (US), return to settings and configure your IMAP access, before returning to settings again to revert to the language of your choice. Although the IMAP configuration tab then disappears again, the settings still work. Awesome

The all important server settings are 'smtp.gmail.com' for outgoing, 'imap.gmail.com' for incoming, your email address as your username and ensure SSL is checked for both directions in the advanced settings!

When you complete your first sync, you'll notice the additional heirarchy below in the account. You'll need to enable the sync for each additional folder you want to view, choose whether to download headers or full messages and choose whether to download messages over 3 days old (if you have a HUGE inbox, syncing everything might not be the best idea in the world)

Well done Google!

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[Subliminal Aura]

Paul is this regular IMAP ? port 143 or IMAPS 993 ?

Do I need to activate it on my account as I still cant see the option for imap  

[PaulOBrien]

993, the default IMAP SSL port, but you just check the SSL box in Messaging and it goes there automagically.

Did you change your UI language as detailed above?

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[Subliminal Aura]

:| it doesn't work for me... I'll try later

[martin01]

Now that is good news!

Thx for tip on language Paul. A quick, maybe stupid, question: Are deletes made on your PPC when off-line sync'ed through to the google inbox next time you go on-line?

Now we only need a fool-proof sync between handheld calendar and Google calendar and things really start to look good!

Martin

[PaulOBrien]

Yes, that's the beauty of IMAP. Even read / unread status syncs

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[Monolithix]

Replied status?

[PaulOBrien]

Don't think so.

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[Subliminal Aura]

Monolithix, on Oct 25 2007, 11:16, said:

Replied status?

Yup - IMAP is king.

( Well it does on my IMAP servers. )

Edited by Subliminal Aura, 25 October 2007 - 10:23 AM.

[PaulOBrien]

Oh, OK!

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[tsutton]

It doesn't show up on mine, even that I changed to English US, logged off & back on.

Guess I'll wait...

[Dr Who]

tsutton, on Oct 25 2007, 11:48, said:

It doesn't show up on mine, even that I changed to English US, logged off & back on.

Guess I'll wait...

W00t!!!!! I had to change my language, but I also disabled POP at the same time, and as if by magic it appeared. If people still have problems I wonder if it is different for those on googlemail accounts (rather than gmail) since that is a regional specific account?

[PaulOBrien]

Strange, worked for me

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[Subliminal Aura]

Paul (MVP), on Oct 25 2007, 12:03, said:

Strange, worked for me

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Heh - This is blatant class discrimination Either that or his real name is Simon Templar ?

[PaulOBrien]

Eh?



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[Leaskovski]

IMAP and WM5, will that work?

Ayone care to do a step by step guide?

[pupton]

doesnt work for me  

[Subliminal Aura]

Leaskovski, on Oct 25 2007, 12:19, said:

IMAP and WM5, will that work?

I seem to see why not, it was working fine in the year 2001 under windows pocket pc 2002.

[Leaskovski]

Yeah, i just realised how to create the account.  lol, not played with that before.  How long have i had my WM device for?  lol

This might just make me add a data tarrif to my account

Oh and they are gradually rolling it out according to an ITweek article so it should appear over the next week if it isnt working yet.

Edited by Leaskovski, 25 October 2007 - 11:46 AM.

[FrankyG]

Ok, activated IMAP on my Gmail account then set up a Gmail account on my Kaiser;

Send/receive works and messages (from the last 3 days) appear to download. But, it's only the headers that get downloaded, no message body, no content...nothing. I've made sure that the settings are ok - set to download headers and message body, download 20k, download attachments (yes) but still can't read the message body. I sent a quick mail from a POP account, with only 'Test test test' in the subject and repeated in the message body, Gmail still won't download the message body  <_<

Any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks,

FrankyG