Gmail supports IMAP
October 24th, 2007
My brother just showed me his Gmail inbox in the iPhone mail application. I instantly thought he’s using some strange outlandish hack to make it work, but no. He’s using straight IMAP. On Gmail. – Who would’ve thought that this day would come?
Gmail now supports IMAP! – It even is the recommended protocol over POP, which makes sense, but is surprising anyway.
Google even describes how to configure your iPhone. Way to go! This makes Gmail work on the iPhone just like it’s supposed to be and Wolfgang can stop ranting ;-)
Get more infos about this announcement over at the Gmail blog!
If you still have questions after reading Google’s help pages, please also look through a few IMAP Gmail configuration tips & tricks for additional help.