Comments on: FAQ: How To Force BIS To Use IMAP For Gmail

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:10:13 +0000

The Gmail app doesn’t integrate your gmails with the rest of your messaging, which for me would suck.

IMAP Gmail (hosted domain) is instant on my Storm. For example, if I send an article to myself from Viigo it is arriving practically before I can hit ok and escape out of the article view. Seriously, I mean instant. On Verizon BIS.

By: prorsum

prorsum — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:00:07 +0000

Will Gmail delivery still be almost instant w/ IMAP? Right now I just have it set up through POP3 I am guessing, and I get my gmail almost immediately after it arrives in my inbox – sometimes even before. I do not want to give that up if IMAP will slow that down significantly.

By: LuisU

LuisU — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:32:21 +0000

Native GMail application doesn’t handle HTML emails nor inline images, as an example.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:44:59 +0000

There is a gmail app for blackberry which allows full management of your mailbox. Can someone convince me its worthwhile using blackberry email instead? Why is it worth all the setup hassel? How would you manage your mailbox?

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:57:28 +0000

@avremele:
BIS will BCC yourself on every email sent if you enable that. You can disable it by removing your own email address from the BCC field in the email setup, but keep in mind you then lose any tracking of emails you’ve sent.

@Tamer:
IMAP synchronizes read emails, deleted email, sent email, etc. POP3 does not. So if you read an email on your PC in theory it shouldn’t show up as unread on your Blackberry.

@Ronen:
I thought there was a Gmail application for Blackberry???

@niknud:
Let us know. I have an address that can have POP3 or IMAP but of course BIS defaults it to POP3. If what you are trying works I may try switching it too. It is a Netaddress email account that is my primary home email, so the IMAP benefit would be nice. But I wonder what would happen if I also access it from my PC via Outlook???

By: Tamer

Tamer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:18:37 +0000

Hi All,
I am new to the BB world. Why use IMAP vs. pop? I currently use pop3 with gmail and have no issues. so why would I switch what are the benefits?

By: avremele

avremele — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:49:09 +0000

With POP3 I had an issue that it would send me a copy of my sent message to the blackberry. Will this problem go away?

By: niknud

niknud — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:02:09 +0000

Has anyone tried this setup method for anyother imap hosted domains to get the advantages of a true imap environment instead of pop3?

I use my own domain on the bis and suffer from the pop3 nonsense… I might try connecting my account the gmail describes to access it via imap…

By: royal.eight

royal.eight — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:54:54 +0000

Has the speed synchronization / delay in new mail arrival issue been resolved? I was seeing sizeable delays in both when using BB + Gmail + IMAP.