Gmail Starts to Roll Out IMAP

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

IMAP has been a long-requested feature for Gmail, and according to the official Gmail blog, Google is starting to roll it out to users. If you don’t know about IMAP, it keeps e-mail data synced across multiple devices. This means changes on your iPhone will show up on the Web, and on your Treo, or whatever.

Typical of such rollouts, the change, which will appear as a “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, rather than just “Forwarding and POP” in your Gmail settings, once it rolls out to you — will roll out gradually to users.

Instructions to set up IMAP for your account can already be found here.