Wonderful But A Few Things Lacking
I’ve been using Gmail’s IMAP service for almost a week now. It’s nice to deal with account administration via Apple Mail (bulk archive, bulk spam deletion, etc.) and the direct syncing of email between phone, laptop and Gmail account is nifty (meaning I don’t have to log into gmail from a browser to clean it up). However, something kept bugging me for a couple of days. Turns out that G-IMAP doesn’t support a bunch of features, such as flags for \Answered, thus losing status icons to let me know if I’ve replied to an email message and/or forwarded it.
Most of my communication is via chat so it’s not critical to have them, but knowing if I’ve replied to an email, or not, is very nice. And of course, it was a feature supported by my domain’s implementation of IMAP. Due to this, I might switch back to the roundabout fashion I was using previously. It worked well and didn’t really cause a lag in receiving or sending mail. The only thing missing was the ability to deal with spam. Logging in to Gmail via a browser every once in a while isn’t difficult and what I’d get in return is more usability for what matters more than deleting spam.
