Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

The Web is awash with frustrated Google Apps and Gmail users who are not able to use their email because the Gmail IMAP server is down. IMAP is an important service that helps users connect their ...

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for ...

I use Gmail IMAP with Mail.app and it's good. But I'm in a state of transition, having used Gmail POP with Mail.app in the past. A lot of my email is still stored locally, except for Sent messages ...

Email client applications use Internet Message Access Protocol to open email messages stored on a remote Web server. For example, you can set up email client apps like Apple Mail to view business ...

Not everyone will appreciate it, but Google just upped the ante in the webmail game by rolling out unprecedented free IMAP access for Gmail. Beginning last night, Google began activating IMAP access ...

Google's email platform doesn't have to be Web-based. You can configure Gmail to work in your office with Outlook or Outlook Express by using either POP or IMAP to send and receive messages with your ...

If you've tried using Gmail on an iPhone you've probably been frustrated. Copies of sent and received emails end up in your inbox and read emails aren't synced to the server, so if left unchecked the ...