GMail iMap - April 10th, 2008
GMail iMap is a god send. Now that i’m all emailed up with my new iPhone i needed to find a way to consolidate the 4GB of email sitting around on my work and home machines for 3 different email accounts and bring them together in a place that i can manage once and be reflected everywhere. After getting mail set up on the new phone i’m finding that i use my laptop at home MUCH less. It’s a pretty good interface and so much more socially acceptable to hold a phone up for a few seconds than have to lean over onto the laptop.
After hunting around a bit i found that GMail had my solution.
I’ve added my 2 other accounts to be checked through GMail so all mail comes through that location. I am now in the process of transferring all that old mail from my local machines into GMail by just drag-and-dropping the folders full of mail into my Gmail iMap account in Apple Mail. It’s quite slow, but it’s getting there and a real relief to find such a seamless and simple solution that works perfectly. With the GMail storage limit sitting at around 6.6GB at the moment i reckon i’ll have all the space i need.
Now i just need to work out if/how i can send mail from different addresses with my iPhone.