Gmail starts supporting IMAP protocol

If you use Gmail, you can now synchronize your email in your inbox with your computer and smart phone (smartphone) via IMAP protocol.

Introduced at the Interop New York Conference on IT on October 24, Matthew Glotzbach, Google Enterprise product development manager, said that Gmail accounts are supported with IMAP protocol next to the protocol. Traditional POP. Users can now use IMAP to synchronize both iPhone and computer.

In principle, the Gmail IMAP feature keeps the information in sync throughout the flow through different terminals instead of just depending on a single device. Specifically, it provides users with the ability to read an email in Gmail, then transfer it to the "Starred" folder on the iPhone, then transfer it to the "All Mail" folder of Thunderbird software. , and then keep track on your BlackBerry even if there are any changes or modifications to any content at one of the mail storage devices.

To use this feature, users need to take steps to enable IMAP features in their Gmail accounts as well as to set up mobile devices to download mail. Once the configuration is properly installed, all user changes created with the email whether on a smartphone or a computer are valid on all shared mailbox devices, for most changes generated by the instant host.

This is also one of the additional functions of the Google Applications application chain deployed since February 2007.

To help users better understand, Google has recorded and uploaded a video tutorial at YouTube.

What is IMAP?

Internet Massage Access Protocol (IMAP) is the new generation of Post Office Protocol (POP). Simply put, IMAP places e-mail control on the server while POP's only task is to "throw" all e-mail messages back to the client. Specifically, IMAP provides e-mail access in three different modes: offline (offline), online (online), and disconnected.

Offline mode access is POP, where messages are transmitted to the client, deleted from the server, and the link is disconnected. Users then read, reply, do other things in offline mode, and if they want to send new messages they must reconnect.

Online access, as its name implies, is an access mode that users read and work with e-mail messages while they are connected to the server (open connection). These messages remain on the server until the user decides to delete it. They are all labeled to indicate "read" or "answer".

In disconnected mode the user temporarily stores messages in the client, works with them, then updates back to the server at the next connection. This mode is useful for those who use a laptop or go to the network with a phone dial link, and do not want to waste the advantages of the mail store on the server.

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