Talamathi

A post today on Mac OS X Hints handles something that has annoyed me with using Gmail IMAP with Leopard’s Mail.app. Specifically, there was an issue with To Dos : For a while I’ve been annoyed at Mail.app’s creation of the Apple Mail To Do folder on my IMAP server (I use Dreamhost). No matter what I did, it just wouldn’t stay gone. There’s this hint, and there are some thoughts in the comments, but no real fixes. I returned to my problem today, and found that by going into Mail » Preferences » Composing, I was able to solve the problem. In the ‘Create Notes & To Do’s in:’ drop-down menu, select On My Mac. Close the preferences, then delete the Apple Mail To Do folder on the server. That’s it! No more ‘Apple Mail To Do’ folder on the server; just locally. I added a comment to this for someone who was having trouble with this on Gmail, that after doing this, I: followed the steps above, quit Ma...

I’m not vain enough to think anything I say really holds much weight with others. Fortunately, Merlin Mann had a similar, but much better phrased, reaction to an article in the New York Times today about email overload . At some point I want to at least write down my thoughts of trying to keep an empty inbox while using Gmail with IMAP . NYT: Businesses Fight the Email Monster They Helped Created : If you’ve seen the video of my Inbox Zero talk at Google, you may recall the moment when a few attendees start mentioning the hundreds of internal email messages they receive (and send) in a given day. I still remember, because I almost fainted… Technorati Tags: Gmail

I finally have IMAP with Gmail! Thus ends the series of posts nobody cares about concerning my lack of email. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google

It’s at this point in not having Gmail that I truly wish I had not accidentally run over a Google employee’s dog, where by “accidentally” I mean “repeatedly”, and “dog” I mean “son”. And yes, I took that from the Simpsons . Honestly, what else am I supposed to do? It’s not like I have IMAP to fill my time. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google , Simpsons

So I still don’t have IMAP available for Gmail . A post on the Official Gmail Blog said it would take a couple of days to do them all, but I was hoping I would be better than average. Oh, well. I have picked up some useful pieces of information from an editorial “ Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange? ”. I don’t know if everything is true (I try not to use editorials as a source for facts, although Technologyevangelist.com has tended to be pretty good), but if it is there were two things I did not know previously: Gmail’s IMAP does not currently support IMAP Idle . This is too bad, but also not surprising, since I assume they wanted to get IMAP out as they could. I would be surprised if this doesn’t hurt them in the end, what with everyone doing full refreshes. Leopard will support IMAP idle. This is great news. Before I started using Gmail for everything, I was using IMAP and loving it. Unfortunately, Mail.app didn’t have idle so I sa...

Gmail gets IMAP - Download Squad : It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment. When we checked Gmail Help database this evening, Gmail had said that they support POP, but not IMAP. Then a few minutes later, that doc was gone, and a stack of IMAP related help docs were up. The new pages explain how to integrate the new mail feature. It’s as easy as setting up POP, but with huge benefits. There’s a little mental list I have of things I’d like Google to do to improve their applications, and this just crossed half of them off (assuming it’s true; I haven’t seen this preference yet). (Via Daringfireball.net .) Technorati Tags: Google , repost , Gmail