Gmail iPhone / Mac settings

quamb

I personally don't like IMAP as it seems to lag, and rather have a copy locally, so am using POP on my mac. The problem is, if I use POP on the iphone, my mac doesn't receive a copy.



What would the best setup be for -



MAC - POP. All email saved locally and on gmail.



iPhone - Receive only unread messages. If read on iphone, still delivers to pop account setup on my mac.







Am guessing I should set up the iPhone as IMAP? Is it responsive?





(sorry for the newb here, this is my first iphone and only had it for a few days)

iamijohn

You can setup your gmail account as an exchange account (via Google Sync).



Google Sync

http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/



Instructions here.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile...40&topic=14252

tonton

Any solution for Yahoo?



I have a Mobile Me account, a Hotmail account, a Gmail account and a Yahoo account. The Gmail account works great, as does the Mobile Me account, obviously. Hotmail sucks because it's POP and not IMAP, so I have to click on all the mails on my iPod Touch to mark them as read (why isn't there a "mark all as read" function on iOS Mail!?) But I can't check my Yahoo account at all with Mail. Is there a workaround for this?



To answer the original question, I have no lag whatsoever with Gmail using IMAP on my iPod Touch. I have severe lag using Hotmail with POP.



And there's nothing stopping you from storing your IMAP email locally with Mac Mail.



For anyone who wants a free email account that works well with iDevices, I wholeheartedly recommend Gmail over the other big ones.

tonton

Aha! It seems that because my Yahoo account is at yahoo.com.hk instead of yahoo.com, just like yahoo.co.uk, I can set up POP access without subscribing to Yahoo! Plus. No IMAP available without a modified email client, and no way to modify iOS Mail. But POP is better than proprietary!



Meanwhile, I've found out that Yahoo works with iOS Mail out of the box. But my research has helped me enable my Yahoo mail account in Mac Mail as well. Yippee! No more f$¢king webmail.