GMail is moving with IMAP and another cool feature
(I know I’ve posted a lot the past two days, but I’ve also had more time in front of the computer to read stuff, gets the gray-matter moving)
For those of you using GMail, I am sure that most of you know that you can use an email client such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Mail, so forth. You do this because GMail has POP, or Post Office Protocol, enabled. The downfall to this is that you can either download your email to your client, and delete it off the server, or you can download it and have it on the Google server. If it’s left on the server, then you do have a backup copy of your emails, but if you deleted any in your client, you have to delete them off the GMail server later on.
GMail is now enabling IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, can help synchronize your server and your email client message. If you delete it in your client, such as Outlook, it will be deleted in GMail. If you delete it in GMail, it won’t be downloaded in your client, and if already downloaded, will disappear in your client. For more information, you can go to this page: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12760
Another nice thing about GMail is that they’re up’ing the storage given now. Last week, I noticed that I was just under 3000MB of storage, and now it has moved up to 4450MB of storage. This isn’t up to the 5GB Hotmail offers, but it’s a lot. I forsee this moving upward even more in the future.
