IMAP for Gmail

Want to see Gmail changes you make on your iPhone instantly reflected in Gmail? Now you can with IMAP for Gmail support rolling out over the next few days. You can sync your inbox across devices instantly and automatically. Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox. Delete an email from your iPhone and it will be deleted from your Gmail. Gmail will also show what you’ve read on the iPhone, so no more “Mark as read” and reading the same email twice nonsense.

IMAP for Gmail in Settings Page To see if your Gmail account has IMAP turned on yet login to your Gmail account and goto Settings. If you see a tab called “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” you have it. If your tab says “Forwarding and POP” it means your account has not been IMAP enabled by Google yet. But not to worry, Google is rolling it out to everyone over the next few days. Here is what the Settings page looks like with IMAP support.

To configure your iPhone to use Gmail with IMAP support follow these 7 steps. A video demonstration is also provided below.

Enable IMAP in your Gmail account settings.
Tap Settings.
Tap Mail.
Tap Add Account.
Tap Other. (Note: don’t tap Gmail; if you do, you’ll set up POP rather than IMAP. We are aware of this issue and are currently working to make setting up Gmail more intuitive for the iPhone.)
Make sure that:
- The IMAP tab is highlighted
- Host Name is imap.gmail.com
- User Name is your full Gmail address, including ‘@gmail.com’
- For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), Host Name is smtp.gmail.com
- For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), Host Name is smtp.gmail.com
Tap Save, and you’re done.

You can also verify your Advanced settings by tapping Settings > [your Gmail IMAP Account] > Advanced.
Incoming Settings

Outgoing Settings

If you rather watch the steps here is a nice little video tutorial:

Read the details here. More info on the official Google and Gmail blogs.

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10 Comments to “IMAP for Gmail”

hey i have a question, when i try to sent outgoing mail from my itouch it says that it can not connect to smtp.gmail.com

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Posted on December 15th, 2007 at 8:37 pm by asdf
Configure your IMAP folder settings so that the mail goes to the same folders as the Gmail webmail setup.

http://macbit.net/hints/ipod-touch-configure-gmail-imap-folders

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Posted on January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm by macguru
Mail settings for iPod Touch

Under Settings, select “Mail”, “Add Account”, “Other”, then “IMAP” and use the following settings:

Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: imap.gmail.com
User Name: your Gmail account
Password: your Gmail password

Outgoing Mail Server
Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
User Name: your Gmail account
Password: your Gmail password

Advanced
Use SSL: On (incoming/outgoing)
Authentication: Password (incoming/outgoing)
Server port: 993 (incoming) and 587 (outgoing)

Mapping iPod Touch folders to Gmail IMAP folders
Once you’ve set up your Gmail account, go back to Settings>Mail>Gmail (or whatever you’ve named your Gmail account settings) and change the folder mappings as follows:

a. Select “Advanced”
b. Select “Drafts Mailbox” and set it to “On the server > [Gmail] Drafts”
c. Select “Sent Mailbox” and set it to “On the server > [Gmail] Sent Mail”
d. Select “Deleted Mailbox” and set it to “On the server > [Gmail] Trash”

Click on “Advanced” each time to return to the prior menu after choosing a folder

Once this is complete, new sent mail will automatically be saved in your Gmail “Sent” folder, new draft mail will be saved to your Gmail “Drafts” folder, and deleted mail will appear in your Gmail “Trash” folder.

Any emails sent from your iPhone will appear in Gmail’s ‘Sent’ view, any saved drafts saved on your iPhone will appear in Gmail’s ‘Drafts’ view, and any deleted messages will be reflected in Gmail’s ‘Trash’ view. If you want to “Archive” email from your Touch, open the message and move it to the “[Gmail] All Mail” folder.

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Posted on January 11th, 2008 at 12:15 am by Freek
hey, i can set this account up, but when i go to check my mail, it says no password entered, but ven when i go back to settings and enter it again, it doesnt save it…please help…im frustrated

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Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 4:29 pm by Enezi
i just got the ipod touch and i tried to do the same…
it keeps saying “connection to imap.gmail.com failed.
and i checked all the settings twice…. nothing

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Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 7:01 am by ghj124
have u jailbrokeb ur touch..if u have then u need to install the app called “fix mail password” from installer

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Posted on April 8th, 2008 at 6:59 am by enezi
thankyou

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Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm by dayna jhughes
Thank you.

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Posted on September 20th, 2008 at 6:38 am by Hu
HAVING PROBLEMS WITH EMAIL ACCOUNTS USING 3G IPHONE THE SETUP OF THE IPHONE SEEMS TO BE FINE BUT WHEN I HAVE AN EMAIL ACCOUNT WITH A PASSWORD WITH SPACES IN IT IT DOESNT RECOGNIZE THAT PASSWORD NEED HELP. APPRECIATE ANYONE WHO CAN HELP WITH TROUBLING MATTER ALL ACCOUNTS WORK WIHTOUT A PASWORD ONLINE AND ON MY BLACKBERRY BUT NOT ON THE IPGHONE 3G FIRMWARE 2.1 PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CONTACT ME AT MY ADDRESS ABOVE PLEASE I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING AND THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED WITH THAT IPHONE WAS CHNAGING THE PASSWORD. CANT UNDERSTAND WORLS WITH ALL OTHER DEVICES!!!!!!!

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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm by JOE
First of all there is no need to SCREAM! I would suggest changing your password to something without a space in it.

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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm by Appmin

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