Oct 27
One of the biggest problems with the iPhone is how it handles email (especially if you use gmail). If I read something on my iPhone, it was still unread in my gmail, and my inbox.
Basically, the way it should work is: if I read it on my phone, my laptop, my desktop or the web, it should be marked as read everywhere. You couldn’t do this out of the box.
I took a crazy approach to making this happen. One weekend, I set up my own IMAP server on my Slicehost server and downloaded my mail to my slice. I then connected all devices to that IMAP server.
Well, someone else though that was a good idea. Google. Finally, google has started providing IMAP for Gmail. Check out these instructions on how to set up IMAP for Gmail on your iPhone
If you still don’t get why IMAP is cool, check out this diagram comparing POP and IMAP.
I heard about this first on TUAW
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