Fastmail IMAP setup - Page 2

MaryGladys · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by aceracer24

The problem is that WinMo won't treat the labels as folders. Also, even though Gmail has IMAP, you won't be able to use push mailwith it. You will have to use a 3rd party app to use push mail. I sure hope Gmail changes that some day.

My labels are folders on both my Desktop and Mobile versions of Outlook using GMail. And I can DEFINITELY send and receive email with the account. It's nice.

My only gripe and I am looking for a solution....is that in receiving my email, it takes FOREVER to download on my phone. I do better to go to http://gmail.com and check it that way. Sending is fairly fast, though. I guess that is the price for free

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John Lessnau · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by scottsimon1979

I dont know who told you its slow but they are wrong. I have been using gmail for 3 years now and have never had a slowness issue once. Gmail beats the hell out of yahoo mail. Trust me.

I never liked fastmail's clunky old school interface but there are a ton of Fastmail zealots out there that wouldn't use anything else. Anyway, I set up a second clean Gmail account to forward all my email accounts to then will us IMAP to hit it wih my phone.

Tahde · #3 (**permalink**) 11-06-2008, 06:48 PM

I have Gmail as well. I've never had any problems. I also think its rather quick.

eptd · #4 (**permalink**) 11-06-2008, 07:33 PM

I use mail2web and have zero problems with it. I upgraded to the $5/mo service and now can use my gmail as my "from" address. All my emails come in instantly just like my blackberry did.

John Lessnau · #5 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 01:20 AM

Ok, I set up a Gmail account and have 3 of my main email accounts sending there via pop3 and set to leave on server.

Everything is fine, I set up a few labels for some of the messages I don't want to see in my inbox when on my phone.

Some messages came in and the all were added to the labels I created but they also still are in my main inbox. So I have about 20 auto-emails from paypal in my inbox. I don't need to see those on my phone unless I want to see what came in or research something.

So I logged in with my phone and all messages I received (including the 20 or so paypal emails and other various auto emails I labeled) are showing up on the main gmail inbox plus in the labels. So I have about 3 emails out of 40 or 50 I need to look at but they all are in mixed in my gmail in box with all the emails I wanted to filter out to labels.

I get 100s of emails a day and I need to have them filtered to various labels so I don't have to search through my gmail inbox on my tiny 3 inch screen TP screen. It seems the label thing just tags an email for sorting but doesn't really move it anywhere. Either Gmail won't work for me, or I am doing something wrong. Maybe Snapper mail would filter the labeled messages out of the inbox?

Anyone out there get lots of emails that uses Gmail? How do you filter out the auto emails you don't need to look at right away out of your inbox so you just see the main emails from friends or human customers? I double checked all my filters and every email has the label I created and and the default inbox label. Is there a way to remove the default inbox label when filtering to a created label. Sorry, I have always been a very light gmail user. I need help from a power user.

MaryGladys · #6 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by John Lessnau

Ok, I set up a Gmail account and have 3 of my main email accounts sending there via pop3 and set to leave on server.

Everything is fine, I set up a few labels for some of the messages I don't want to see in my inbox when on my phone.

Some messages came in and the all were added to the labels I created but they also still are in my main inbox. So I have about 20 auto-emails from paypal in my inbox. I don't need to see those on my phone unless I want to see what came in or research something.

So I logged in with my phone and all messages I received (including the 20 or so paypal emails and other various auto emails I labeled) are showing up on the main gmail inbox plus in the labels. So I have about 3 emails out of 40 or 50 I need to look at but they all are in mixed in my gmail in box with all the emails I wanted to filter out to labels.

I get 100s of emails a day and I need to have them filtered to various labels so I don't have to search through my gmail inbox on my tiny 3 inch screen TP screen. It seems the label thing just tags an email for sorting but doesn't really move it anywhere. Either Gmail won't work for me, or I am doing something wrong. Maybe Snapper mail would filter the labeled messages out of the inbox?

Anyone out there get lots of emails that uses Gmail? How do you filter out the auto emails you don't need to look at right away out of your inbox so you just see the main emails from friends or human customers? I double checked all my filters and every email has the label I created and and the default inbox label. Is there a way to remove the default inbox label when filtering to a created label. Sorry, I have always been a very light gmail user. I need help from a power user.

If you go to http://gmail.com and to Settings, you can create rules or filters there. I would recommend you create rules to move those emails to your labels and then delete the email from the inbox. It's a two step rule. I have done this with some of my emails......

CareTake12 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 02:08 AM

What the difference between pop and imap?

John Lessnau · #8 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 10:44 AM

With Pop3, all of your emails are dumped to your email program. Which is fine with a robust desktop program that can filter those messages to folders and do spam checks, but mobile phone programs don't have this kind of power.

IMAP lets you look at your mail server, in my case, i am trying to get Gmail to work. Gmail does the heavy lifting, sorting and filtering spam and all the mobile phone needs to do is look at the gmail and show me the emails and where they are sorted to. If you read my post above, I am having trouble with IMAP and Google filtering

John Lessnau · #9 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 01:24 PM

Ok, I figured out what to do. When filtering message to labels, there is also a check box to also move to archive, this archives the message out of the inbox and moves the message to the label. Problem solved.

Now my next problem is that I really don't like the built in email app as compared to Snappermail. Snappermail seemed to have many more features. I'll give the built in app a bit of a chance before a make any changes though.