[X4U] Can Apple's Mail pick up GMail?

[Neil Laubenthal]

The benefit of IMAP is that you can access your mail from more than  
one place . .  .Mail on your laptop, Mail on your desktop, IE from the  
Windoze box at work, your iPhone, the internet cafe when you're in  
Tokyo, etc.

It's true . . . you have to leave your mail on the server (including  
your archives) for this to work . . . but IMAP mail space is pretty  
cheap. If you've got MobileMe . . . you've got a total of 20 GB of  
space. I don't keep my mail archives on MobileMe but rather on my  
fastmail.fm account. That only costs me 20 bucks a year for 600 MB (40  
bucks a year for 6 GB) . . . I currently have 139 MB of mail archived  
there for a total of about 15,000 messages.

GMail is also a good place to store archived mail . . .it's free but I  
really don't think much of the non-folder interface they use.

I do keep some really old archives on my laptop in Mail . . . but then  
I rarely need stuff from before 2003 while I'm away from the house.  
The real nice thing is that it's all available no matter where I am.


On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:53, Linda wrote:

> On 9/30/08 11:26 AM, Andrew T. Lynch wrote:
>
>> This is a pretty good description of IMAP vs POP
>
> I read a bunch of the IMAP vs POP sites before I asked my question.  
> Now I'm
> asking the *benefits* of IMAP. I know what it is, but I can't tell  
> from all
> of these pages what the benefits are. For example, if I want to  
> access an
> email from one year ago, with IMAP I have to leave it on the server,  
> right?
> The server will fill up eventually. I just don't see the benefits of  
> IMAP
> over POP, given how they both work, and was hoping someone could  
> explain the
> benefits of IMAP.
>
>
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