Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for ...

If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, you're probably aware that many clients—like Outlook or Mail.app—don't ...

If you're like me and you saw last week's announcement from Google regarding GMail's support of the IMAP mail retrieval protocol (and you know what IMAP is), then you probably reached the same ...

The Web is awash with frustrated Google Apps and Gmail users who are not able to use their email because the Gmail IMAP server is down. IMAP is an important service that helps users connect their ...

Google offers a free web-based e-mail service called Gmail. Small businesses may prefer to have their employees access their Gmail e-mail account from the standalone e-mail program Outlook Express.

If you cannot add your Gmail account to Outlook due to the "We couldn’t log on to the incoming (POP/IMAP) server" error, use ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Google offered up free IMAP for their Gmail service, there was much rejoicing. When we ...

If you want to keep receipts of your text messages, you can do so by saving a copy to your Gmail account. Luckily, if you end up backing them up, they are easy to search when you need them. Losing ...

It was great while it lasted, but I finally broke up with Gmail. Though I had relied on Google’s popular email service for years, my level of satisfaction had been dropping steadily for a while, and ...