by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
If you use Google mail (Gmail) you probably heard that it now supports IMAP, which allows you to access email directly from Google's servers rather than having to download everything to your device. While you can use Windows Mobile Messaging with Gmail, prior to this update you could only use POP and download the mail to your device. In my use of Gmail POP on a Pocket PC I found it worked sporadically.

The IMAP support has been slowlly rolled out, and tonight I found it available for my account so I immediately wanted to test it on my Tytnn II. Configuration is pretty straight forward as I describe in my book, but I did have a bit of a problem entering the right username. Initially I entered userid@gmail.com, which is how I log in to Gmail, but that doesn't work. Instead just enter the part to the left of the @ sign for the user name. If you are the type that likes graphical instructions, Jason Pearce has created a nice tutorial with step by step screen shots.

My initial test shows some problems with what looks to be HTML mail because it is not displaying, but the good news is that it appears to delete email correctly. You will find that the default configuration in Messaging is to not delete email from the server, but you can change that if you wish.

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posted by Frank at 11:27 PM 

1 Comments:

Visit:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs&issue=gmail_issue_windowsmobilehtml

Its a known issue. Click "Report" so they get to fixing it faster.

By developdaly, at 1:55 AM  

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