It only took like 4 years but finally, Gmail has IMAP support. Way to go guys! Nothing wrong with being last I suppose.
All kidding aside, this is a very long overdue change and in my opinion makes Gmail legitimately useful. I’m glad there is a web interface but it is not as good as Mail.app or Thunderbird. And IMAP makes Gmail much more useful on the iPhone. Cool.
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99% of the time i keep my laptop turned ON, it’s also connected to the Internet. Great thing, i don’t have to have to store such an amount of rarely useful information just for the 1% of the time I am offline.
Not only a waste of space since offline i can still access documents i’ve created while i had an Internet connection (including any eventual single email backup) it’s a security concern to have such an amount of critical information in one place like this (laptop, desktop…).
That’s not all, If emails are not kept in the server, because they are on the local machine, there is another disadvantage associated with the fact that you will be stuck to the machine where your email client is configured what means you can’t read email from any other place you might need.
I can think in more disadvantages like an useless program taking more than 300 MB (Mail) that doesn’t have some interesting capabilities of the GMail Web client,… anyway i think i’ve explained why they haven’t gave much of attention for IMAP support and still reached such a successful position.
Posted 12 Dec 2007 at 1:12 ¶Post a Comment