Waiting for IMAP
While Google started rolling out IMAP support for Gmail almost a week ago, my account still hasn’t been upgraded. Granted, they’re vague enough:
We’re rolling it out to everyone over the next few days.
Six days still counts as “the next few days”, but still, surely, they could’ve made the whole process a bit less excruciating. Needless to say, it’s cumbersome to fire up Gmail’s settings on a daily basis, only to encounter the dreaded “Forwarding and POP”—especially if you’re holding off on actively using Gmail until you have IMAP working.
On a related note, I still don’t get why they used to offer POP, but not IMAP. If anything comes close to Web-based e-mail, it’s IMAP. And, sure, most people are used to POP, but POP for Gmail just has to confuse the hell out of them.