Thought you might be interested in the news below that says that the latest iPhone update automatically enables IMAP on the iPhone if you use Gmail. Now I reckon most of you use IMAP anyway, but I know a few of you have had issues so I was wondering if this had effected you at all?
Announcement
Google is warning iPhone users that the latest software update for the Apple mobile (v.1.1.3) will change the way Gmail works on their phone.
In an advisory notice published to the Google Gmail Help Center, the company warns users who configured Gmail access on their iPhone by tapping the Gmail icon in Mail set-up will see the mail service automatically updated to enable IMAP mail services once the iPhone update is installed.
“This means that actions you take on your iPhone will now sync with actions in your Gmail web interface (i.e. messages you read on your iPhone will show up as ‘Read’ in the web interface). This also means that messages you delete on your iPhone will be moved to the Trash folder in the Gmail web interface, and thus deleted after 30 days,” the company warns.
“Please exercise caution when deleting messages, as this behavior is markedly different from POP access.” The company also offers users the information they need to continue using IMAP without deleting messages, and instructions to return the iPhone to using POP access.
Thanks [Macworld]
I use Gmail on my iphone 3g..and it always worked fine, until all of a sudden it stopped working. It would not update my email and just say “connecting….” and then “cannot connect to imap.google.com”. It was so frustrating! I tried several things, none of which worked. Finally I got a tip from someone online to just go into gmail on my computer and change my password to something more secure. Up until then my password had just been a simple word, but after changing it to something with a number and longer word in it, gmail worked on my phone again. But gosh it was so frustrating when it wasn’t working.