On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:05 PM, b3studios wrote:
I've been using POP for my email clients for a long time. Now that I'm using an iPhone as well, IMAP seems a logical step.
I'd suggest you go one step further and use secure IMAP, also called IMAPs. You get this by checking
Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Advanced->Use SSLThis will magically encrypt your passwords and mail as they pass between you and the server so the man in the middle can't read it.
But I have a few questions. Currently I'm using gmail and have it set up as IMAP in Mail.app. But it's downloaded all my emails from my gmail "All Mail" folder/ label (several years worth).
On the screen Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Advancedthere's a popup that lets you determine where the mail is stored. For most accounts, I don't keep any of the messages on my machine.
Also, be aware that Gmail is somewhat non-standard in the way it handles mailboxes in IMAP. With most mail servers, moving mail to a mailbox actually moves it to a separate mailbox. With Gmail, the mailboxes are just illusions created by labeling the messages. If you delete a message from a mailbox, you're not deleting the message, just the label. This means that messages can rise from the dead unless you delete them from the root.
I also find that Gmail is a sloooww IMAP server. All the other servers I use are almost instantaneous while Gmail often makes me admire the spinning rainbow pizza of time. It was clearly designed as Web mail, with IMAP grafted on as an afterthought.
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