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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.

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. 20
   April 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pm Antique Ring says:

   I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks! Regards, P.

2. 19
   March 22nd, 2009 at 7:13 am Jess says:

   The link was seperated. Here you go tech challenged.

3. 18
   March 4th, 2009 at 8:22 am Rachel says:

   thank you so much mike!!

4. 17
   February 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm angie says:

   ok..I am having the same trouble…checked all above,but when i clicked on the link by “mike”, it said the page did not exist! I’m so frustrated b/c my gmail account worked until about 2 weeks ago!!! HELP a tech-challenged person!!!!

5. 16
   February 9th, 2009 at 6:29 am Yagnaroopaya says:

   Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again - taking you feeds also, Thanks.

6. 15
   February 8th, 2009 at 7:40 am Pitambharadharaya says:

   That?s Too nice, when it comes in india hope it can make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.

7. 14
   December 21st, 2008 at 12:35 am Mike says:

   I finally found a fix for this: macrumors post by misformac that states:

   hey i had the same problem on my iphone
   trying to set up gmail imap
   it would first ask if it was ok to not use SSL
   then it would say imap.gmail.com is not responding.

   all i had to do to get it working was to clear the CAPTCHA.

   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78754&topic=12922

8. 13
   December 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm Allen Miller says:

   I just bought an Ipod Touch and I can’t log onto my e-mail it says “cannot connect using SSL Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?” If I say no nothing happens but if I say yes than it says The IMAP server “imap.gmail.com” is not responding. CHeck your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the “Incoming Mail Server” field. Do I have the wrong cords or what do I do? I can’t seem to figure it out. Please Help,

9. 12
   November 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm Steve says:

   Everything worked for me, except for when I send a email, its says smtp.gmail.com did not work.

10. 11
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:11 pm Brian says:

    Thanks it worked.

11. 10
    October 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm Appmin says:

    First of all there is no need to SCREAM! I would suggest changing your password to something without a space in it.

12. 9
    October 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm JOE says:

    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!!!!!!!

13. 8
    September 20th, 2008 at 6:38 am Hu says:

    Thank you.

14. 7
    July 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm dayna jhughes says:

    thankyou

15. 6
    April 8th, 2008 at 6:59 am enezi says:

    have u jailbrokeb ur touch..if u have then u need to install the app called “fix mail password” from installer

16. 5
    April 7th, 2008 at 7:01 am ghj124 says:

    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

17. 4
    March 31st, 2008 at 4:29 pm Enezi says:

    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

18. 3
    January 11th, 2008 at 12:15 am Freek says:

    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.

19. 2
    January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm macguru says:

    Configure your IMAP folder settings so that the mail goes to the same folders as the Gmail webmail setup.

20. 1
    December 15th, 2007 at 8:37 pm asdf says:

    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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