Hi Levi,
I'm confused. You say, below, that you got a hosted Exchange account but that you're using it via IMAP on the Pre? That doesn't compute or me - did I misunderstand? Also, there's no way Google's Gmail interface is faster than Outlook, and there's a ton that Outlook can do that Google can't touch, yet. As with most things Google has deployed, with the possible exception of Android, I find Gmail's user interface to be quite poor and unintuitive. As I say, I find *all* Google desktop products to be so, so this doesn't surprise me. Give me Outlook or Outlook Web Access any day . . . ?? Cheers, Don From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Levi Wallach Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] IMAP via Gmail This has a pretty good list of advantages (and some disadvantages) of IMAP over POP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Advantages_ove r_POP My path to IMAP was a bit circuitous. Basically I got a hosted exchange account. I used Outlook and Outlook Web Access to get my mail via MS's MAPI protocol via PC but got the same mail on my Treo 700P (maybe even the 600?) via IMAP on Chattermail. The same hosted exchange, and many hosts provide more than one protocol with which to retrieve your mail. Then I got at 700wx and used Activesync, so I wasn't using IMAP at all until I got the Pre last June. I actually looked forward to it because it meant I could once in for all get rid of the desktop client (Outlook) and rely on either a web interface, or if I wanted a desktop app. Google's web interface is excellent though, so much faster than Outlook can be on anything but a fairly new machine not running a lot of other stuff (at least with Vista). Tons of Firefox plugins and Greasemonkey scripts make it even more powerful. I'm never regretted making the switch. I was even able to take my old archived email going back about 10 or 11 years and upload it, so I now have an incredible repository, and I'm still only using about 10% of the 7GB of my Google Apps account. The only thing that bugs me about Google is that it's support is a bit faceless. I suppose if I paid for the premium account I might be able to get real help, but I've never seen a response from a Google employee adressing an issue posed by a user, including myself. Their stuff works and if something breaks it generally gets fixed fairly quickly, but it does feel like they are so big that they are really impersonal (and thus a bit unaccountable) sometimes... Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:05 PM, John Messeder <[email protected] <mailto:jmesseder%40comcast.net> >wrote: > I need to find a primer on IMAP that'll tell me why it's better than > POP. Either gives me my mail and allows me to answer it. > Google claims to be IMAP, but I don't know enough about it to rate > whether it's true. Right now, I'm POPing to Google because that was how > I set it up initially. Now we've got that server thing worked out, I > guess I'll go back and try IMAP again -- I just don't really know why. > > On 2/1/2010 11:27 AM, Craig Froehle wrote: > > Kind of. The Pre syncs with your Gmail account...it's not technically > > IMAP, I don't think, but it may be...all I know is that it works. :-) > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
