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Speed Up Gmail IMAP with Outlook
Posted by Gina Trapani at 7:30 AM on November 8, 2007
Accessing Gmail via IMAP with Outlook cramping your email style? If you find yourself waiting too long for your Outlook inbox changes to sync back to the mothership, a few settings can speed up the process. By setting Outlook to download message headers only, retrieve new messages less frequently, and work offline, your Gmail in Outlook experience can be smoother and faster. What Gmail/IMAP/Outlook techniques are working for you? Let us know in the comments.
Tags: email | email apps | gmail | imap | microsoft outlook | microsoft outlook tip | optimisation | outlook
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joemo
Posted 3:57 PM 7/11/07
MS Outlook: Satan's portal to the Internet.
(I know, MS has cleaned up it's security quite a bit...)
joemo
dognose
Posted 5:23 PM 7/11/07
Are there comparable settings like this for Thunderbird? I've tried that gmail IMAP with it, but it's pretty unbearable. The biggest missing feature for me is that it doesn't properly mark which emails I have replied to.
dognose
omar199
Posted 5:15 PM 7/11/07
Gmail IMAP + Outlook Express make me sad.
omar199
SilverStar95
Posted 7:25 PM 7/11/07
Anyone suffering from gmail's imap server simply not responding for like.. the past 5 days?
SilverStar95
qrius
Posted 6:43 PM 7/11/07
any settings to speed up in apple mail (10.3)? I have given up b/c of it's utter slowness in imap.
it would be nice to have an offline option for apple mail.
qrius
DasLife
Posted 6:41 PM 7/11/07
I, also found that using Gmail IMAP with Thunderbird, my files took for ever to download when i was ready for them, so I actually utilized the offline option for the inbox, similar to what was explained for Outlook.
DasLife
Capone
Posted 9:32 PM 7/11/07
Google gmail is catching up to AOL finally.
If you haven't tried AOL free mail lately, it really has quite a nice clean interface, and IMAP of course.
Capone
digitom
Posted 3:44 PM 9/11/07
As for aim.com....
I have an aim.com account. One day, I was moving messages from another account to my aim.com account. Suddently everything stopped working. Logins were failing.
My account had been flagged as having been compromised. Fortunately, aim.com customer support was GREAT and got my account turned back on in 4 hours. This was for a free account.
If you want to use aim.com, I would forward your GMail account to an aim.com account. You get to use the GMail spam filters and read your mail from aim.com. If the AIM account gets blocked, read your mail on the GMail account.
This also gives you backup copies of all your email on the GMail account....tom
digitom
digitom
Posted 3:39 PM 9/11/07
All they are doing here is pre-caching the bodies of the mail messages. It then loads faster because the message is now on the local system.
Doing this turns IMAP back into POP. If that's what you want, go ahead. It's also the way to go if you want to disconnect from the net and still read your GMail...like Google Gears for every platform.
This "increased speed" does not come without consequences....
If you have a slower internet connection it will bog your system down as you are constantly downloading message bodies, even the ones you dont want. Even worse, if someone sends you a big attachment that you didn't want....too bad...you are getting it anyway.
If every one in the office does this, then the internet service can become slower for everyone.
digitom