One of the great things about Gmail is that it uses IMAP. IMAP is far better than POP3 because IMAP allows email to be marked read or unread and have folders exist on the server so when you read, change or move something from one program or computer, all other programs are updated. (I know that doesn’t fully explain it, but whatever.)

So using the iPhone’s built-in email program is almost as good as usin’ Gmail directly online. And there’s even a way to archive, star and move items to spam and to different lables.

To archive a message, select your message(s) and move them to the “All Mail” folder.

To access all mail, move into the “All Mail” folder.

To mark a message as spam, select your message(s) and move them to the “Spam” folder.

To access / delete spam messages, navigate to the “Spam” folder.

You can mark or unmark messages starred by moving messages in or out of the “Starred” folder.

Gmail creates folders for all labels you have set up in Gmail, so you’ll find folders with the name if each label in your email app. You can move, read, delete, ect, messages for these labels by doing it with these folders.

And there ya go. Nice, ain’t it?

Peace, J

You know one thing that really bugs me about the email app? When you have a group of new email messages, you click on one of them to archive (move) or to delete. What the email program does is, instead of returning you to your inbox view, it moves to the next message, and if that message is unread, it marks it as being read. You then have to mark that message as being unread and then move back to the inbox view.

I wish the email app had an option, or was set to default, to move you back to your inbox (or whatever folder view you were in) instead of moving to another message.

But, but… OS 3.0 will have a crap load of changes to it, so I’m hoping this will be one of’em. But yo, it ain’t a big deal though, I’m lovin’ havin’ my email on the NeoCell.

Peace, J

I was doin’ business today and someone said an attachment they sent to me via my Gmail needed to be open when I was out somewhere. I said no prob, but then realized the problem that you can’t search mail, and it was taking way too long (freezing) to load up “older messages”.

That won’t be a problem when OS 3.0 comes out. It’ll include a global search (Ooo, big whoop, Pocket PCs have had that for years. Let’s be real.) But, that won’t solve the problem. Unless they allow the Mail program to store more than the small amount it does now, that global search won’t be that useful for old email because the Mail app only holds so many messages. If you need to search for something that came in, let’s say a month ago, searching for it won’t find it.

The solution? For Gmail, if your online, go directly to Gmail.com and search that way. Don’t worry, although it’s a bummer to have to go on Safari to search, the good news is that searching from Safari Gmail.con is the same as searching from normal Gmail.com. Anything you’d expect (for the most part) is there for ya online.

So, that’s the solution. Wanna’ search your mail? You can do it as long as your online.

Peace, J