Monday, October 29, 2007

GMail over IMAP

GMail finally offers IMAP access. Now all we need is an IMAP client that does not suck.

Offline IMAP access is terrible in Thunderbird and even worse in Outlook. GMail's mobile interfaces, basic HTML and Java applet, work really well for accessing your email on the move. The full blown GMail web interface offers unmatched scalability, search, calendar, chat and docs integration. Moving back to Thunderbird is just too painful.

I reckon the best usage for GMail's IMAP access is that it is now trivial to backup your GMail data. See ImapSize or the plethora of IMAP backup/sync tools on Freshmeat. It works great for Google Apps For Domain users too.

1 comment:

R Karthick said...

I completely agree :).

With their new completely revamped javascript framework at the client side, it has become as fast as ever.

Btw, Thanks for the links for backup!