IMAP for Gmail

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IMAP for GmailWant 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.

  1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail account settings.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Tap Mail.
  4. Tap Add Account.
  5. 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.)
  6. 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
  7. Tap Save, and you’re done.

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

    Use SSL: ON
    Authentication: password
    Server Port: 993

Outgoing Settings

    Use SSL: ON
    Authentication: Password
    Server Port: 587

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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34 Reviews on “IMAP for Gmail”

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  1. 34
    Oguzhan Yesilay says:

    Hi ,Unlock thing Worked really fine.There is a link just click and unlock.My mail works fine right now.Thnx for help

  2. 33
    Worst Nightmare says:

    This was by far the word advice i’ve ever read. A chimpanzee, blind, with poop soiling in his hand could give better advice than the chicken scratch I have just wasted my time bothering to read in hopes of solving an issue.

  3. 32
    Ines Fleurant says:

    Wow! Was f?r eine Idee! Was f?r ein Konzept! Beautiful .. Erstaunlich

  4. 31
    Edouard says:

    I loved reading this and I dont really like to read :)

  5. 30
    Cheryl Wilson says:

    Yeah this cool I like this post are you going to do a follow up? I just won a Mac Book Air today :) I am so happy about that found a freebee site http://budurl.com/MacBookAir

  6. 29
    Nicholas says:

    More post please! you are leaving a poor old man hungry for more :[

  7. 28
    monster says:

    i unlocked captcha but now when i try to send an email its saying that my sender (outgoing) address is invalid. my sender addres is “smtp.gmail.com” just like it says it should be. does anyone know what im doing wrong please help.

  8. 27
    nadia says:

    Thank you!!! I clean the captcha as Mike suggested here. And it works!

  9. 26
    JinTN says:

    so, my imap/gmail works fine from day one. however, is there a way to have the gmail application running instead of the default email client. i can’t seem to get to do that. I was able on a blackberry storm.

  10. 25
    monster says:

    i got a question i followed all those instructions i got it all set up but when i go to check my mail it “says the connection to the server imap.gmail.com failed” but iv checked everything about 50 times and i followed the instructions and it just doesnt seem to work would you know why?

  11. 24
    steve says:

    I am having same problem, out of the blue, on my Iphone.
    Did not improve with “unlock captcha”
    any other thoughts?

  12. 23
    jim says:

    thanks mike!
    the unlock captcha solved it!

  13. 22
    Scott says:

    I had the same exact problem. On my iPhone, the imap.gmail.com failure would pop up, I don’t know how this happened because it was working fine. The problem has been solved though by doing this…

    Specifically, you have to go to a page on google and type in your username, password, and a captcha phrase and then it suddenly starts allowing IMAP again.
    **** You MUST visit this from the same computer/iPhone/iPod touch/whatever that is having the problems. ****

    Visit: https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

  14. 21
    Larry says:

    As a someone new to the internet I am always searching online for for psots like this that can help me. Thanks.

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