Our readers will know that June 29, 2007 was a very special day for LawyerKM. Well, mark October 26, 2007 down as another one. Yes, today is the day that LawyerKM’s Gmail got IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). And that’s a very good thing for our iPhones.
We could get into all of the technical goodness, but the bottom line is this: Synchronization. Up until now, with POP (Post Office Protocol), our Gmail didn’t synchronize. When we deleted an email on the iPhone, it remained in Gmail and we had to go on the web to really really delete it. (We hate duplication of effort.) And we couldn’t tag our emails either. Now, Gmail on the iPhone is just like Gmail on the web. Tag, archive, delete. Go nuts.
Here’s a good “how to” explaining the set-up procedure.
Now if we could only do something about that crazy GSM buzz…
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