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Originally Posted by jharp146
Is there a way to set up the Gmail app so that it works kind of like Outlook in that it will alert me whenever I have a new email? I'd prefer not to actually have to download all my emails to my phone, or at least I would like to delete them from my phone and not from my actual account. Also I like having threaded emails, both reasons I like the gmail app better but I do like that outlook alerts me. Anyway to set this up?
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Yeah you can do all of that in IMAP. In fact, google has instructions themselves on how to set it up. Just go to gmail and click on help, and run a search for IMAP. IMAP works in poutlook, and you can set it to download headers only, and how often it polls GMail's servers. There is also the option not to delete messages on the server when deleting them on your phone. Although from what I understand, even when this setting is set to delete off the server, GMail just puts an IMAP/deleted tag on it. Unforunately, its going to be regular outlook when looking at the email, and not threaded like java gmail. That's really the only downside. I don't think you'll be able to get it to notify you when a new email comes in, though. It's a java app running on a virtual machine, I don't think it will have those capabilities. Sorry, hope this helped.