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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company now gives people some precise control over how other e-mail applications can use Gmail with IMAP. It's minor, but it shows the wisdom of Google's approach. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The Internet Message Access Protocol, an email delivery system, stores your messages on the mail server rather than downloading them to a specific email client on your computer, mobile device or ...

Last week, I updated my annual guide to backing up Gmail for 2020. As always, this is a guide that gets a lot of interest. This time, I also got a letter from ZDNet reader Carmela, who asks: I don't ...