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The Google folks just made a good day even better. No longer must I whine about the poopy IMAP support to Gmail from my Windows Mobile 6 phone.

Nay, no more. For they have fixed it!

There are a lot of email clients out there, each with its own quirks, so making IMAP work across all of them can be tricky. We’ve worked with Microsoft engineers to debug the incompatibilities with Windows Mobile and made some tweaks to our code.

Oh, I am so giddy right now.

Don’t get me wrong — using the mobile web interface was working just fine. But this is so much more convenient (and quicker).

I don’t know if this was a Windows issue that Google had to code around or a Google issue to begin with. Frankly, I don’t even care. I’m just so happy that it is resolved.

Want to configure Gmail IMAP support for your particular mail client or device? There are a quite a few specific configuration instructions available.

4 Responses to “Google Mail IMAP WORKS with Windows Mobile!”

1. paul on January 31st, 2008 4:51 am
   

   google and microsoft are frends now? :)))

2. Nathan on January 31st, 2008 8:24 am
   

   I set up imap access to my gmail account on my 5.0 Q, and I thought it was just me that had issues with the imap(Honestly I didn’t spend mush time troubleshooting it). It was un-usable on my phone. I am glad to hear and see that they fixed it. Thanks for the update.

3. Peter Motyka on January 31st, 2008 12:12 pm
   

   Awesome! You can’t help but wonder if Google is using an IMAP codebase derived from Cyrus or Courier, or if they built it from the ground up…

4. MattJhsn on February 2nd, 2008 10:48 am
   

   Good News. I’m sure you are enjoying PUSH email on your winmoble 6 phone.

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