IMAP for Gmail

somehow my IMAP Gmail stopped working so I deleted and tried to recreate. The setup in 2.0 is weird and I can't figure out how to set up Gmail as IMAP. With lots of piddling I got pop to work. Any suggestions?

I'm having the same problem.
I updated my old iphone to 2.0 today and suddenly gmail stops working. I deleted the old account, and went thru the steps to create a new one, but each time I try I get an error message saying it can't connect using SSL, and asks if I want to set up the account without SSL. I try that, but "account verification" still fails.
any help would be much appreciated!

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Converting POP to IMAP for Gmail

I've been using the Apple Mail app for many years, to access gmail. I almost never access gmail with a browser. But the gmail account is a POP account, which, now that I have an iPhone, is pretty frustrating.
I understand how to convert the gmail account (disable account on Mac, change account type at Google website, create new IMAP account on Mac). But this will sync my Mac to the mail Google now has. And since I've been managing the whole account from the Mac, and email deletions on the Mac have no effect on Gmail, Gmail has vast amounts of mail that I've deleted from the Mac.
How do I switch to IMAP and get the server to match what's on my Mac?
Many thanks to anyone who can help --

Thanks, guys, that's very helpful, but discouraging.
I found this article:
How to convert a POP email account to IMAP
The basic idea in the article is that you take your whole inbox, drag it to a folder "On My Mac", then switch the account type and set up the IMAP account on the Mac. Then drag all the messages from the folder you created back into your new inbox. You do the same for your sent folder and drafts folder.
It seems that the article implies that when you put the mail back into the new IMAP account in Mac Mail, that the server will sync with it.
Or … I could drag everything into folders "On My Mac" as an archive, delete everything from gmail (is there a way to do that?), then switch and essentially start over.
Or … I could start forwarding all the Gmail POP mail to my icloud mail account and stop checking gmail.
Does any of that make sense? Any other ideas? The idea of going through 4 1/2 years (and 2.5 GB) of mail via googles web interface and making sense of it seems pretty daunting to me.
Thanks again --

Using POP not iMap for Gmail in Lion

I set up Gmail using iMAP and I find it utterly unusable. It's trying to download all 100,000 messages onto my new MacBook Air. NO!!!!
I want to use POP—as i have on all my other machines—to access my Gmail, but I can't seem to get the new version of Mail to cooperate.
Can anyone please step me through how to set up POP access to Gmail? Just changing imap.google.com to pop.google.com does not work. If I try to create a new account, the moment I enter gmail.com it automatically set up as IMAP.
So frustrating!

THANK YOU BARNEY
Words almost fail me regarding why this option is not only hidden from view, is not explained in the help text accessed from the '?' button, and needs secret knowledge to get to (or did I miss something basic somewhere?) but thank gawd I found your answer, albeit after an exasperating significant amount of wasted time...
/ Henry

Do you have to switch to IMAP for Gmail?

Can I continue using my gmail as pop? I never had a problem with it before as POP and would like to continue that way. When I try to use it as POP it never downloads my messages even if I turn off IMAP in the gmail account settings.
Thought if I setup IMAP on my iPhone and on my macbook mail 3.1 (which I'm new to) I would have no problems. didn't work right on either, so I would prefer to stick to POP which worked just fine on both before the update. So if anyone knows if I can still use my gmail as POP on my iPhone it would be great to let me know
thanks

You can stay with POP by creating a new gMail account on your iPhone and specify Other and use POP.
But you are giving up some truly great features, like ability to mass delete emails on your phone, ability to get your messages back if the iPhone mail account gets corrupted and you have to delete the account, and very useful synchronizing between your phone and computer(s).
One tip to get IMAP working properly is to shut off POP via gMail's web site.
-dan

Retrieving e-mail in Japan via WIFI using imap for gmail

For some reason she can send out e-mails, but can not retrieve them. She is using WIFI so that she doesn't have to deal with data roaming charges. Why would she be able to send but not receive. She was told that the iPhone can't receive e-mail in Japan because of it having a different chip (believable if it was over the cell network but it is over WIFI.) Would it be possible that they would have the port blocked for receiving but not sending at the WIFI hot-spot?

crossplatformsolutions wrote:
Would it be possible that they would have the port blocked for receiving but not sending at the WIFI hot-spot?
Yes, that's certainly possible.

The BEST solution for gmail on the iPhone

OK, so after much poking around, I finally figured out the best solution for using gmail on the iPhone: IMAP support.
While I think Google is still rolling this out to all users, once you get it, USE IT! It basically keeps your mail app synced with gmail, and even supports the use of folders/labels.
To see if your gmail account is ready for IMAP, go to the settings option in gmail and see if one of the tabs says "Forwarding and POP/IMAP." If you don't have IMAP available on your account yet, it won't say IMAP.
Here's some links to get you started:
setting up IMAP for gmail on your iPhone:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702
how actions in your mail app sync to gmail:
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657
I hope this helps out everyone as much as it's helped me. I was a little frustrated before using POP, but gotta love IMAP! I'm not too sure the impact that this has on your battery life, but so far it's working well for me. Enjoy!

Gmail and IMAP have totally change my tune about the iPhone's email abilities. I was getting frustrated with the inability to reliably get mail (Message has not been downloaded...), sync (have to delete mail from both iPhone and desktop Mac), etc., but now I have all my POP email accounts automatically forward to my Gmail account, and I only check Gmail with the iPhone and MacPro. So far, it's a whole new iPhone experience! No more errors - ALL mail comes through perfectly - and no need to manually sync!
Note that, when setting up the Gmail/IMAP accounts, do NOT simply update your old POP Gmail settings on your Mac or iPhone! Start with a FRESH new account. I couldn't get either the iPhone or Mac to work until I started with a fresh account.
Also, I was unable to send mail from the iPhone using the smtp.gmail address, so I had changed the outgoing mail setting to use my regular ISP's smtp address. But, at some point (a few minutes later or a few hours, I don't know) when I checked the Gmail settings on the iPhone, it had magically changed itself to smtp.gmail, with the port number, and it has been working perfectly ever since! Maybe IMAP can atomatically correct this info? Not sure.
One more thing. Once you have Gmail IMAP working, then you MUST go here:
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862
Follow these directions exactly. This is a necessary set of steps in order to make your iPhone and Mac sync correctly, so that trashed mail on the iPhone will go in the trash on your desktop Mac, etc. It's pretty freaky to check email on the iPhone, and then go to your Mac Mail a few minutes later, and see all the newly trashed (or saved/read) emails perfectly synched up!
A final note. Once this is all working and synching, remember that if you delete an email on your iPhone, it gets deleted on the desktop Mac Mail as well (and vice-versa)... which is exactly what you want to happen, but I find that I have to remember to keep the mail that I want to save on the iPhone's inbox until I get back to my desktop Mac. Otherwise, I have to manually remove it from the trash to save it!

Why all of a sudden am I having difficulty sending Gmail emails? I get a send error. When I run diagnostics there is a SMTP and IMAP account for Gmail and I am not sure how to fix this.

Why all of a sudden am I having difficulty sending Gmail emails? I get a send error. When I run diagnostics there is a SMTP and IMAP account for Gmail and I am not sure how to fix this.

Hi jodilynnf,
When using Connection Doctor to see what is could be causing the issue, look for the red dots to let you know what is wrong. Then all you have to do is correct that information. You can double click on the section that is giving you issue and it will take you there. Most issues could be just password being entered incorrectly. Take a look at the article below to walk you through troubleshooting issues with Mail.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3276
Take it easy,
-Norm G.

Complete IMAP settings to use in Mail for Gmail

Mail users,
Does anyone know the complete settings for Gmail to work with Mail in Snow Leopard. Sometimes there are advanced settings that need to be adjusted, for complete integration, but I'm not sure how to tinker with them.
Any help would be great or articles you can refer me to.
I'm primarily wanting to stop the creation of IMAP/ folders on the Gmail web interface, perhaps there's a way to use those folders as primary locations, who knows?
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The GMail site at Google should provide all the required information you need.

Push mail is not working for gmail and hotmail on ...

i have been using my nokia e72 since february 2011. i had two mailbox configured, gmail and hotmail. Until last week, everything was fine. but suddenly my push mail stopped working for both gmail and hotmail.
when i noticed this, i removed both of my mailboxes and tried to create a new one. when trying to create a Gmail mailbox, it goes fine upto "downloading terms". after that, when i choose to connect to "nokia messaging service", it creates a mailbox named "HOTMAIL" instead of "GMAIL". it takes only my user name for Gmail and rest of the settings are for HOTMAIL.
if i choose not to connect to "nokia messaging service" then it works quite well. but thats not real push mail. it will check my email every 5 mins. but when tried to create a "HOTMAIL" mailbox, i had no luck. no matter how i try, hotmail mailbox can't download my mail. and as hotmail don't support IMAP, its very disgusting to use "POP3" if i choose not to connect to nokia messaging.
i have tried to reset the phone using *#7370# and *#7730#, but no luck. i also tried reinstalling the firmware using ovi suite, but i didn't had any luck either.
please help me, i am very disappointed with this kind of problem specially from nokia.
someone please do help. i m in a huge mess.

delete the account and re-add it.

How do I delete a message? Using Imap and gmail

I am using imap with gmail in apple mail for leopard. I get the idea that when you press the delete button it only deletes the inbox tag and it is still available for reference in "all mail" on the left window. I like this, it allows me to clear out my inbox and still reference e-mails later. Here is the question... How do I really delete a message, one I truly never care to see again? My "all mail" is getting out of control.

This is what I do:
In preferences, I set my Gmail account as recommended by Google: I UNcheck the "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox" option under Mailbox Behaviors. Once I do that, clicking "Delete" from the inbox actually archives it into the All Mail, but leaves it in my mailbox.
If there is an email I actually want to delete from my account, I move it from my Inbox to the Trash folder. I do this with a MailActOn keystroke, but you can do it just by moving it or dragging it there.
MailActOn helps a bunch if you have a lot of emails. I process about 300 a day and rely on it for maintaining my sanity, especially since I can set the same keystroke to do different things in different accounts, since I "delete" and "archive" differently for different accounts.

Email - settings for gmail on iphone; Gmail or Exchange?? what's the dif??

hey there, can anyone itemize the differences between using Exchange for GMail, versus just using the GMAIL setup for email on the iphone4?
In the past i have had IMAP and GMAIL, and the single exchange.. NOW I am using exchange for access to all my gmail accounts. why should I use the GMAIL settings, instead of Exchange? for my gmail activity?
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Easily Setting up IMAP for the iPhone

The email client application on the iPhone is a bit lean but it's easy to use. When using POP email it downloads the entire message (and attachments if present). If you get a lot of email this takes time and can really eat up your battery. Also, if travelling outside of the U.S., as I do often, the roaming data charges can be high. Web based email will also be expensive as web pages need to be downloaded onto the iPhone.
IMAP type email lets the email and attachments sit on a remote server and you see only the subect and header in your inbox. When you find something you want to read then you can open it. Attachments are also not downloaded automatically. This saves the amount of data exchanged and your battery and potentially can be much cheaper overseas.
The problem is that not everyone has access to an IMAP email account or service. I currently have three POP accounts. two personal and one for my work. I asked our IT manager if he could activate IMAP on our Exchange server and he said no as he would need to open another port and that is a potential security risk. They do forward my work email to a proxy email account I have so I can read it at home with my non-Outlook computer.
I finally came upon a fairly good solution that I have been testing out. There are several email services available that use IMAP. Some are free and some cost a modest amount. I finally selected FastMail.FM (I believe they are in the U.K.). Their IMAP service has a lot of options available with it and one of which allows you to poll outrside POP accounts. I set up an email account with them and FastMail reads my three POP accounts every 2 hours and dumps them into my IMAP inbox.
I now have only one email account for my iPhone (now IMAP) for my three POP accounts. I find the iPhone in IMAP email mode a little easier to use (if that's possible) and deletion of emails from the iPhone is easier (an edit button will appear in IMAP mode). Attachments are also more stable as it is possible to lose an attachment in POP mode if you don't download a message fully and then try to download it again. I tried email messages with PDF and DOC attachments and everything worked OK.
FastMail also has their own SMTP servers so you won't get into the occasional snafu that occurs when you attempt to use the SMTP server from your own ISP. One thing though, they have four different options available for accounts. "Member" status seems the best ($35/year) as it has large mailbox, storage and data allotments.
I went up to the ATT website to look at data usage and it's truly modest in IMAP mode. Checking email with no new emails appears to be in the 4 to 6 KB area and downloading 20 or so message headers looks like to be in th 15 -20 KB zone. I'll be tracking this over the next few days and I'll post the results.
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Two things would solve this problem for 99% of iPhone
users I think:
1) Gmail needs to get IMAP implemented.
There is a simple and elegant solution to the Gmail IMAP problem, and it doesn't require deleting all your outgoing messages as some "solutions" have recommended.
1. Go to http://mail.aol.com/ and sign up for a free AOL email account (which will be [email protected])
2. Log on to your AOL email, go into Settings, and turn the spam filters off
3. Log on to your Gmail account, go into Settings > Forwarding and POP
4. Set your Gmail to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to:" [email protected] (also choose whether you want the original to stay in your gmail inbox or get archived)
5. Set up the email account on your iPhone as follows:
- Type of account: Other > IMAP
- Incoming email account: imap.aol.com (use youraolusername and AOL email password for incoming email)
- Outgoing email account: smtp.gmail.com:587 (use [email protected] and Gmail password)
6. Under Advanced settings, have it delete the messages from the server after downloading them. (Optional, but there's no point in leaving them on the AOL server)
Voila! You get:
1. IMAP access to your Gmail inbox (thru the AOL proxy...don't worry, the emails won't look any different than if you got them straight from gmail)
2. Outgoing emails will be sent through Gmail (nobody has to know the AOL account even exists)
3. Messages sent on your home computer will no longer be downloaded onto your iPhone (since that's a function of POP that's particular to Gmail, and does not occur with IMAP)
4. Sent emails will remain with their threads and do not have to be fished out of the trash if you want to be able to search them later (remember that messages in the Gmail trash are automatically deleted after 30 days)

IMAP fo Gmail on iPad

I have enabled IMAP in Gmail settings but get "The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding" in the iPad Gmail account.
Have deleted and re done the account several times.
Baffled.... Any ideas?
JB

Solution is to log in to your google account and then go to security Tab. Choose app passwords and generate a specific password for ipad or iphone mail. you then replace your standard password in mail settings on ios with the 16 digit password Generated by google.
This problem is because two step verification cannot be used on ios mail. I've just got mine working without having to set up a different account or changing to exchange.
Hope you get your mail working correctly. J.

Noika E5 Email manual IMAPsetting for Gmail/Yahoo/...

Enable IMAP setting on your Nokia E5 ------------ this is working -----------
1. on your Phone Select 'Messaging' > 'Options' > 'Settings' > 'E-mail' > 'Mailboxes.'
“If you have never set up email on your phone before, select 'Yes' to define a new mailbox. If you already have other mailboxes, select 'Options' and then 'New mailbox.'’
2. Select 'Start' to begin the setup wizard.
3. Click on any one mail Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail (for Ovi mail you need go to other…)
4. If you have clicked on Gmail*** it will ask email address ( '@gmail.com') but before moving forward enter you email address as (‘[email protected]') instead of (‘[email protected]') {enter ABC instead of GMAIL } and then > your password then select 'Next.'>
5. Screen will appear with three (Mail Exchange and POP/IMAP and Lotus Notes)
6. Select ' POP/IMAP' and then 'Next>
7. Now put your correct Email address (eg. ‘[email protected]’) > Same on User name > then Password>
8. On Mailbox Type -------Select IMAP4 > and following are IMAP setting ---
Note – for Yahoo and Ovi mail you can follow the point 3 to 8 (enter ABC instead of YAHOO or OVI)
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IMAP setting for Gmail ---
Enter 'imap.gmail.com' as the incoming mail server
Select 'SSL/TLS' for your security (ports) and define your port as '993.'
Enter 'smtp.gmail.com' as the outgoing mail server
Select 'StartTLS' for your security (ports) and define your port as '587.'
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IMAP setting Yahoo mail ---
Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL)
Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL)
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IMAP setting OVI mail ---
Incoming IMAP Mail Server:
Server Address: imap.mail.ovi.com
• Secure connection: SSL (IMAP4S)
• Port: 993
Outgoing SMTP Mail Server:
• Server Address: smtp.mail.ovi.com
• Secure Authentication: None
• Secure connection: SSL
• Port: 465
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AWESOME MAN!! I have beenstruggling with the setup on my new E5 for the last few days and finally I resorted to the web and found my solution with you. "@abc.com" did the trick I must say I wish Nokia guyz include these steps in the manual

IMAP with Gmail

Has anyone successfully set up Gmail using the IMAP protocol. I set up a Gmail account but it is not "pushing" mail. It works ok -but you have to manually check or set up for polling the server at intervals (just like with a pop acccount.)
Yes, I have seen the video and, yes, I set the account up manually using IMAP instead of the iphone default (pop) for Gmail.
So now I wonder if Gmail does in fact support "push". Anyone ?
JD
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I see that the Mail application with Leopard has a checkbox to use IMAP IDLE. When I check the box, it does get email from Gmail as soon as it hits the Google server. I had thought that Yahoo uses IDLE and therefore Gmail IMAP might work on the iPhone. No such luck it seems.

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