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.

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for ...

The Web is awash with frustrated Google Apps and Gmail users who are not able to use their email because the Gmail IMAP server is down. IMAP is an important service that helps users connect their ...

As you learned yesterday, working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail’s Web-based interface. A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or ...

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). On affected ...

Google's email platform doesn't have to be Web-based. You can configure Gmail to work in your office with Outlook or Outlook Express by using either POP or IMAP to send and receive messages with your ...

If you've tried using Gmail on an iPhone you've probably been frustrated. Copies of sent and received emails end up in your inbox and read emails aren't synced to the server, so if left unchecked the ...

Mail saves a modified draft every 30" on the server (if you use an IMAP folder for drafts), and each obsolete version is deleted. Most IMAP severs simply delete the obsolete version, but GMail moves ...

Not everyone will appreciate it, but Google just upped the ante in the webmail game by rolling out unprecedented free IMAP access for Gmail. Beginning last night, Google began activating IMAP access ...

When Gmail debuted on 1st April, 2004, everyone went crazy over the ease of use and the 1GB storage. Since than, not much happened. A few weeks ago, Google upped the storage to 4GB, but the thing most ...