Comments on: Configuring Thunderbird for Gmail IMAP on Leopard

By: fourfridays

fourfridays — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:56:45 +0000

Imap and here is why. When you read you email over an imap connection its marked read on your Gmail account as well. So for instance if you have 10 emails on your imap mail client, those 10 would be marked read on your Gmail account. Now if you were using pop and checked your email on the client and then checked it on the Gmail account those emails would still be sitting in your inbox as if you haven't read them yet. I am sorry I don't understand your question about downloading all the emails on every connection. Neither imap nor pop does that. They only check for new email for the time intervals that you set.

By: Pali Madra

Pali Madra — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Is it better to use Imap or pop3 for your gmail with thunderbird specially when you have lots of mail sitting in your gmail accouint? I personally think pop is better as all the mail is not downlaoded on at every connection which I believe is the case with IMAP. Do you concur?

By: nintendo n64

nintendo n64 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:41:56 +0000

Great article, adding it to my bookmarks!

By: Umair Abbasi

Umair Abbasi — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:16:25 +0000

Thank you Daniel. I am really glad you found the instructions useful. Stay tuned, there is a lot more to come.

By: Daniel Maurer

Daniel Maurer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:57:29 +0000

Thank You very much for the info about “Configuring Thunderbird for Gmail IMAP on Leopard”. Your directions were right on target.