problems with mail and the new gmail imap

i just set up mail with the imap option in gmail and mail wont check for new emails. i still have the setting left over from when i was using pop (i deleted that acount from mail) to check for new mail every minute, but i watched in mail for a minute and it never checked. any ideas besides just switchin back to pop?

 

did you check out google's step-by-step help page for setting up imap with mail.app? It's here.

 

yup i followed it to set it up

 

I HATE Mail.app with IMAP. The implementation is really poor. I just use the web interface and then the IMAP for the iPhone. Another option is Thunderbird.

 

yea i did download thunderbird and it looked really easy to use

 

Mail 3.0 is better with imap.

 

i really hope so

 

Yeah, no issues here...

 

I asked because it works perfectly for me. I'm on Mail.app and gmail, and everything is happy. I set up a local folder and rules for moving mail to it, and logged back into gmail's web interface to see it updated exactly as I wanted it. It's also retrieving mail on some interval or other.

How about the "Advanced" tab under the gmail account in Mail's preferences? It's got checkboxes for the account being enabled and included in the check for new mail.

 

yup, i think that got it. thankya much

 

If that is the case, that would be a compelling reason to upgrade to Leopard. I have always found Mail.app's support for IMAP to be below that of Thunderbird.

 

Eh...I didn't notice much difference...?

I mean the folders are there, and most of the behaviors work the way they're supposed to....

But then again, I only really started using multiple IMAP accounts when GMail went IMAP - and that was like 3 days before Leopard came out so I didn't have a whole lot of time to play around with it in Tiger.