Hawk Wings » auto-forwarding http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using Gmail with an IMAP account http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:07:44 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/14/using-gmail-with-an-imap-account/ GmailMike Davidson, who is the CEO of Newsvine and half the brains behind the sIFR web typography project, has written a useful guide to getting Gmail to work with an IMAP account.

You cannot access a Gmail account directly over IMAP as you can with POP, but you can—as Mike describes—set your Gmail account up to auto-forward mail into a dedicated IMAP account.

As a result, he says:

Since Gmail’s auto-forwarding feature leaves headers for the most part intact, I can now receive fully synched, fully intact copies of all my Gmail messages to any computer I happen to be on.

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