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 company now gives people some precise control over how other e-mail applications can use Gmail with IMAP. It's minor, but it shows the wisdom of Google's approach. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

If you are a Gmail user, head over to your account settings and select “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” to enable the newly-added IMAP access option. Enabling Internet Message Access Protocol allows you to ...

Google has upgraded its Gmail offering by augmenting it with IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. Essentially, this level of connectivity allows users to access e-mail from multiple devices ...

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 ...

IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol that lets you sync your email inbox across multiple devices. Most popular email apps, like Gmail and Outlook, use IMAP servers ...

If you rely on Google's email server, be it Gmail or Google Apps, you may have noticed a major issue with connecting via the IMAP server. As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google's IMAP server ...

So I just got an announcement what looks a bit like the beginning of the end of the world. Apparently, after May 30th Google will no longer allow good old IMAP connections. That really peeves me ...