14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, Google rolled out what seems to be the most important Gmail feature launched this year: the IMAP access which enables the consumers to control all the features of the Google technology straight from their desktop. Yesterday, I was reading some articles sustaining that Gmail's function is currently inserted in a limited number of accounts and because I wasn't sure the information was true, I refused to write it. And it seems I took the correct decision because today David Murray, Associate Product Manager, wrote that IMAP support is now included in all the accounts. The only problem is that you'll see it only if you're using the English interface but the local versions of the mail service can receive it very soon.
"Last week we announced we were providing you with free IMAP access and said we would roll out the feature over time as fast as we could. I'm happy to say that all Gmail users can now enable IMAP and sync their inbox across devices. Right now you'll only see IMAP settings in Gmail if you're using the English (US) interface, but IMAP will appear for all languages in the coming weeks," the Google official wrote on the blog.
Gmail's IMAP support is pretty useful for all the registered members who want to access their accounts without logging into the web-based interface. At this time, you're able to configure Gmail to work with Outlook Express, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Apple Mail, Windows Mail, Thunderbird 2.9 and even Apple's latest handheld device, iPhone.
Gmail was first released in April 2004 and quickly attracted the attention because it was described as the technology offering the largest storage size on the web. Soon after that, it was improved several times, becoming the webmail which provides 4GB of storage capacity bundled with powerful anti-spam filters.