Comments on: Gmail enables IMAP

By: Kris Shannon

Kris Shannon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:29:47 +0000

Actually the labels are per-message, it’s just that detail is somewhat hidden by the conversation interface.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:17:53 +0000

Hopefully we will be able to archive email into Gmail from other Thunderbird accounts by drag-n-drop onto Gmail’s imap folders.

By: david

david — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:25:35 +0000

Dick: I suspect they’re rolling it out progressively, as they do most features.

Michaël: If you’re like most people using Gmail and Thunderbird with POP (like me), you’ve left the email on the server (gmail), so you can search it through the UI. So if you setup a new account for Gmail with IMAP, you’ll simply have a new view on the same data. Seems to work fine.

By: Michaël

Michaël — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:42:14 +0000

What if I’m currently using POP Gmail with Thunderbird, and I want to switch to IMAP. I already have thousands of messages in my inbox. Thousands of those are from old mbox files, other thousands are e-mails that arrived through POP Gmail, still others are e-mails from other POP accounts.

I obviously don’t want to lose messages, and I don’t want any duplicate messages either.

I’m probably not someone who should switch to IMAP then?

By: Dick Hardt

Dick Hardt — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:01:02 +0000

Hey David, which gmail accounts support imap? (mine does not seem to)

By: Faisal N. Jawdat

Faisal N. Jawdat — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:40:51 +0000

IIRC, the original Cyrus implementation (which was designed to replace CMU’s “everything and the kitchen sink, why are our file servers emiting smoke” AMS system in the mid-90s) did single message store. I haven’t used it enough to tell whether the interaction model would match what Google has.