Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
POP:
- offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
to your computer
- always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
mail
- only downloads your messages -- not your labels
- good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
don't want two-way synchronization
IMAP:
- offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
web!
- save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
whole messages to work offline
- your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
stay organized
- provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
- great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
email client you're using
- a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
right for you, you can always switch.
> Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
> decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
> POP:
> - offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
> to your computer
> - always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
> mail
> - only downloads your messages -- not your labels
> - good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
> don't want two-way synchronization
> IMAP:
> - offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
> read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
> web!
> - save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
> whole messages to work offline
> - your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
> stay organized
> - provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
> - great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
> devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
> email client you're using
> - a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
> Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
> right for you, you can always switch.
I'd love to use IMAP for outlook, but it slows everything to a
crawl.
I don't believe it's outlook as I've done the typical things to
streamline it - disabled add-ins, disabled rss feeds, etc. i'm not
using exchange, purely gmail. i don't really have folders, and use
primarily my inbox and sent folder. even so getting the headers, and
updating the cache can take forever... i had 50-60k emails in my all
mail folder, and 30k in my inbox folder... i tried unsubscribing to
all-mail, and things are still slow. i'm also using my full email
address with @gmail.com as another user mentioned it would speed
things up.
still, it's next to unusable right now. pop seems fine.
> Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
> decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
> POP:
> - offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
> to your computer
> - always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
> mail
> - only downloads your messages -- not your labels
> - good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
> don't want two-way synchronization
> IMAP:
> - offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
> read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
> web!
> - save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
> whole messages to work offline
> - your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
> stay organized
> - provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
> - great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
> devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
> email client you're using
> - a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
> Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
> right for you, you can always switch.
Hi
I had configured my Outlook Express with IMAP but i'm not exactly
happy about it. So i switched back to POP but i get a message
saying,"ur account is not enabled for IMAP use".
I switched to POP by disabling IMAP and configuring for POP. Can u
guide me and say if this was correct or i shud do it any other way.
> Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
> decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
> POP:
> - offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
> to your computer
> - always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
> mail
> - only downloads your messages -- not your labels
> - good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
> don't want two-way synchronization
> IMAP:
> - offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
> read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
> web!
> - save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
> whole messages to work offline
> - your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
> stay organized
> - provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
> - great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
> devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
> email client you're using
> - a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
> Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
> right for you, you can always switch.
I am trying to set my Outlook for use with Gmail, e.g., when I try to
send or ask MrModem a question, his address always goes to Outlook,
but it seems than any message I send to his web site goes to Outlook
from which I cannot send it out. ?The message sets in Outlook and even
though I click on 'Send' it always goes to the out box of Outlook and
sits there not going anywhere. Anyone else had this problem with
Outlook??
> Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
> decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
> POP:
> - offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
> to your computer
> - always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
> mail
> - only downloads your messages -- not your labels
> - good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
> don't want two-way synchronization
> IMAP:
> - offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
> read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
> web!
> - save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
> whole messages to work offline
> - your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
> stay organized
> - provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
> - great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
> devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
> email client you're using
> - a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
> Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
> right for you, you can always switch.
> I'd love to use IMAP for outlook, but it slows everything to a
> crawl.
> I don't believe it's outlook as I've done the typical things to
> streamline it - disabled add-ins, disabled rss feeds, etc. i'm not
> using exchange, purely gmail. i don't really have folders, and use
> primarily my inbox and sent folder. even so getting the headers, and
> updating the cache can take forever... i had 50-60k emails in my all
> mail folder, and 30k in my inbox folder... i tried unsubscribing to
> all-mail, and things are still slow. i'm also using my full email
> address with @gmail.com as another user mentioned it would speed
> things up.
> still, it's next to unusable right now. pop seems fine.
> any help would be fantastic.
> Lon
> On Mar 19, 2:31 pm, Gmail Guide Yellow wrote:
> > Now that Gmail provides both POP and IMAP access, it's about time to
> > decide: which one's better for you? Let's break them down...
> > POP:
> > - offers one-way downloading of your messages from the Gmail servers
> > to your computer
> > - always downloads the entire message, making it easy to back-up your
> > mail
> > - only downloads your messages -- not your labels
> > - good for people who don't want to leave mail on Gmail's servers, or
> > don't want two-way synchronization
> > IMAP:
> > - offers two-way syncing between Gmail and mail client actions. If you
> > read a message in your email client, it will be marked read on the
> > web!
> > - save space by downloading only the message headers, or download
> > whole messages to work offline
> > - your labels appear as folders, and vice versa -- so it's easy to
> > stay organized
> > - provides access to Gmail's Drafts, Sent Mail and Spam folders
> > - great if you check your mail from multiple computers or mobile
> > devices -- you'll see the same messages and folders, no matter what
> > email client you're using
> > - a flexible, more reliable, more complete access choice
> > Still not sure? We think IMAP is best for most. If it's not quite
> > right for you, you can always switch.- Hide quoted text -
Use IMAP on Gmail very carefully.
Gmail has admitted that there is a bug in their implementation of IMAP
that can cause delays in delivering email of up to 12 hours. They have
stated in this group that they are aware of and working on the issue,
but this was weeks ago and there is no projected timeline for a fix!
for me.. personally i prefer POP.
right now i'm using IMAP, and i can't even configure the smtp.
reason is because i'm google apps. if any kind souls wish to help me,
plz reply me.
SMTP is the same whether you get your mail with POP or IMAP.
I accept that, if Google says so, there may be a problem with delivery
delay, but I have never seen it.
Most of the problems Gimap had when it rolled out have been resolved,
so I recommend it if you access your Gmail account from more than one
computer, or from both the web and an e-mail client.
> for me.. personally i prefer POP.
> right now i'm using IMAP, and i can't even configure the smtp.
> reason is because i'm google apps. if any kind souls wish to help me,
> plz reply me.
> I'd love to use IMAP for outlook, but it slows everything to a
> crawl.
Not here.
> I don't believe it's outlook as I've done the typical things to
> streamline it - disabled add-ins, disabled rss feeds, etc. i'm not
> using exchange, purely gmail. i don't really have folders, and use
> primarily my inbox and sent folder. even so getting the headers, and
> updating the cache can take forever... i had 50-60k emails in my all
> mail folder, and 30k in my inbox folder...
I have 25k messages in "all mails" and no performance problems. Why do
you have 30k mails in you inbox? Have you ever considered labels? I
defined some labels that help me sorting my mails. Mails that are in
my inbox are mails that I still want to answer or that I haven't read
yet. By now these are 33 mails. All other mails are having labels.
> still, it's next to unusable right now. pop seems fine.
> any help would be fantastic.
Do you ever have considered using thunderbird? I'm using gmail with
apple mail, thunderbird and entourage. Thunderbird is the fastest.
Entourage is the slowest. Maybe entourage and exchange are using the
same codebasis? (Both are made by Microsoft)
> SMTP is the same whether you get your mail with POP or IMAP.
> I accept that, if Google says so, there may be a problem with delivery
> delay, but I have never seen it.
> Most of the problems Gimap had when it rolled out have been resolved,
> so I recommend it if you access your Gmail account from more than one
> computer, or from both the web and an e-mail client.
> On Mar 31, 1:32 pm, Keith.Y wrote:
> > for me.. personally i prefer POP.
> > right now i'm using IMAP, and i can't even configure the smtp.
> > reason is because i'm google apps. if any kind souls wish to help me,
> > plz reply me.
