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[Just an old news I missed. Posting it here so that you won't miss]

I know many guys who complained that Gmail doesn’t give IMAP. They were complaining when Gmail gave POP for free for its GB inbox when its competitors were giving 5 MB box (one gave 2MB box) with loads of ads on it and POP or bigger boxes for an yearly prices.

According to Download Squad, Google started giving IMAP option from 23rd of this month. Well, not bad, I atleast saw that now, when I went to create a Google Apps account for my 2nd domain.

For the information of non-technical folks out there, IMAP has a bunch of advantages over POP3, check Wikipedia IMAP entry for more information.

By the way, one of my Finnish friends complained that there are some issues with character encoding as it messed up some Finnish characters. I’m pretty much fine with my web-access, so this is of no-use-to-me right now, unless I become completely paranoid and think that Google might close Gmail anytime and I wish to download all my mails down to my desktop.

PS: If you want to use IMAP and don’t see it under settings menu of your Gmail, don’t worry, Google is rolling it out to everyone slowly.