Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

I use Gmail IMAP with Mail.app and it's good. But I'm in a state of transition, having used Gmail POP with Mail.app in the past. A lot of my email is still stored locally, except for Sent messages ...

Gmail Labs keeps cranking out the hits -- this time the experimental project is a collection of Advanced IMAP Controls. The most useful of the new features is a way to selectively control which of ...

IMAP support continues to roll out from Gmail and I just found that my account was provisioned for it sometime last night. I also am now using a T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve as my main device so I ...

There's no word yet on the official schedule or road map for IMAP support in Gmail. Google appears to be doing a silent rollout of this feature. Some users already have it, but others don't. There’s ...

One of the nicest things about IMAP in Gmail—which can download and upload messages to the server, versus POP's download-only—is that you can drag and drop folders of messages into Gmail using any ...

Gmail lover David Chartier went to great lengths to access his Gmail (with labels!) over IMAP and lives to tell the tale. With IMAP you can access your mail from several different computers and ...