In Security and Authentication section below, check User Name and Password, enter complete e-mail address [email protected] in User Name field and select TLS under Use Secure Connection section.

Learn how you can set up & configure Microsoft Outlook to connect to Gmail - both POP3 and IMAP access using auto-configure or manual settings.

Gmail's automatic message threading (where it groups messages with the same subject line) also doesn't translate to IMAP, although some client applications may offer their own threading features.

Even if you prefer the Gmail Web interface, here's a reason to keep a mail client pointed at Gmail via IMAP - the Web interface is down as of 4:00 PM Eastern on 01-Sep-09, but IMAP continues to work.

Gmail Labs keeps cranking out the hits — this time the experimental project is a collection of Advanced IMAP Controls. The most useful of the new features is a way to selectively control which ...

One of the nicest things about IMAP in Gmail—which can download and upload messages to the server, versus POP's download-only—is that you can drag and drop folders of messages into Gmail using ...