Gmail's automatic message threading (where it groups messages with the same subject line) also doesn't translate to IMAP, although some client applications may offer their own threading features.

Gmail lover David Chartier went to great lengths to access his Gmail (with labels!) over IMAP and lives to tell the tale. With IMAP you can access your mail from several different computers and ...

Unless a single PC provides your only interaction with Gmail, you'll be much happier using an IMAP configuration instead of POP.

Gmail Labs keeps cranking out the hits — this time the experimental project is a collection of Advanced IMAP Controls. The most useful of the new features is a way to selectively control which ...

The company now gives people some precise control over how other e-mail applications can use Gmail with IMAP. It's minor, but it shows the wisdom of Google's approach.

One of the nicest things about IMAP in Gmail—which can download and upload messages to the server, versus POP's download-only—is that you can drag and drop folders of messages into Gmail using ...

If you use IMAP to pull mail from your Gmail account (and as we've noted before, you should), you'll want to check out the new Advanced IMAP Controls. Available in Google Labs (meaning technically ...

There's no word yet on the official schedule or road map for IMAP support in Gmail. Google appears to be doing a silent rollout of this feature. Some users already have it, but others don't.

For as long as I can remember, any time people talked about their Gmail wishlist, it always included IMAP support -- finally, according to the Download Squad, this functionality finally exists ...

If you've tried using Gmail on an iPhone you've probably been frustrated. Copies of sent and received emails end up in your inbox and read emails aren't synced to the server, so if left unchecked ...

Gmail's new IMAP option (it's in the settings under POP/IMAP) works out of the box with the iPhone, on both regular and hosted accounts. Instead of the half-assed implementation we had before ...