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Good info. I've been using Gmail for years and never noticed that before.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I've spent a total of one minute in my Gmail and never bothered with it.

you don't need to do that. set up your domain to forward email to gmail, then set your gmail return address to be the address at your domain instead of @gmail.

i don't use gmail to save a buck [i have my own domain] i use it because it is actually good and because customizing it to use my own domain in the email address is relatively simple.

Forgetting for now for the mapping of labels to folders results in multiple copies of the same email being stored on the local side

I thought the whole point of Imap was that there is no storage on the local device. All that was stored on the local side was some header caches. ???

Syncing with iphone mail looks a little ugly because of the folder/label layout issues, but works just great. Calendar and contacts sync with gmail using Gmail's exchange sync protocol, maybe they'll let us use Exchange sync for email one day.

My problems with Google's IMAP implementation is that it is non-standard and, when coupled with MS Outlook's non-standard implementation there are problems (mostly great slowness).

I wish companies could figure out (are you listening GOOG, MSFT, AAPL) that they maximize profits and shareholder value and create more value for their customer (for which they can charge)when they make products that work in as open a fashion as possible, not when the products are crippled by design.

It’s sad how many people think its “ok” to use a webmail client that parses your email and displays ads targeted to those email message.

Not only that, but I've always felt that Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail addresses were too awkward and seemingly unprofessional to give out, or to receive, anyway...

"Hi I'm Joe Blow from Progressive Insurance... here's my card, you can email me at joe.b2009progins@gmail.com!"

Uhhhh... no thanks, Joe (tosses card away).

I have a required Gmail address to access Google Webmaster Tools and Google AdWords for my sites (and I post here with it), but that's it. I never give it out or even check my inbox. The whole Webmail/Calendar/Contacts, jumping-through-flaming-hoops syncing work-around mess (not to mention what's being discussed here) seems like a lot of trouble to save a coupl'a bucks. But to each his own, I guess.

The ads on the web mail interface were always part of the deal. They were there when we signed up for the FREE mail service. Get over them or get your email account elsewhere.

If you pay for GMail you can get rid of them.

how many third party logins to the account do you have? I'M+ nuevasync etc each count as a connection. Things you tried out and forgotten?

I have 5 machines logged into the same google account at all times.

Those seeing this should try changing passwords. There is a good chance you are pwned, and someone else is reading your mail.

As for adding spam filtering on top of googles, the is a fools errend. GMail spam filtering is so good that this is pointless and counter productive. Better to leave the spam sit there till you have the report as spam button available (or pop open safari). Report it once and you will never see it again. Delete it with an external spam filter and it will be back.

Also, push Gmail wouldve already happened if they were going to implement it. Apple's probably putting a hold on that so it won't compete with MobileMe. Honestly if it were a real feature I wouldn't bother with MobileMe either, I'd already be able to sync contacts and calendars and push mail. Complain to Apple and Google.

Why not just log out of one or more clients? What is the big deal? Seriously, I'd like to understand why you need three devices connected at the dame time.

If I have a desktop client always running (to filter spam, since server-side never captures everything), the iPhone running, and then open up a third client, I'll likely have the problem. If I open up a forth client, Gmail dies on 1 or 2 of those clients.

MobileMe and Exchange, no problem at all. Gmail should be equally as robust when it comes to IMAP, or Google should be working at making it so.

With that said, Gmail has worked exactly as I have expected it on my iPhone. I go to my mail app, it connects to the server, downloads my e-mail, and I view/delete whatever. It would be nice to be able to mark spam in my mobile version though.