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Free IMAP On Gmail

Posted by kdawson on from the bout-time dept.

A number of readers are writing in to tell us that Google is rolling out IMAP support for Gmail accounts. Several people say that some of their gmail accounts offer the IMAP option (in Settings, Forwarding and POP/IMAP) and others do not.

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  1. Size of headers? by Psychor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not sure exactly how they're going to implement this, since I can't see the option in my account as yet. I would imagine they'd have to limit it somehow though, since for accounts with thousands and thousands of emails sitting around in them like mine, the size of even downloading the headers via IMAP would be fairly prohibitive?

    I would guess they'll limit support to a few hundred of the latest mails only or something like that, but if anyone has checked it out and has any information that'd be useful.

  2. Labels or Folders? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I personally hate "Labels", but how will Gmail support something basic like folders?