[Osx-nutters] Re: gmail and Mail

[LuKreme]

On 5-Jan-2007, at 12:24, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> Friends just bought their first Mac (MacBook) and have gmail  
> accounts. They want to use Mail and are wondering how to set it up  
> properly - and if they can use IMAP with gmail/Mail.

Mail.app works fine with gmail, but gmail does not (yet?) offer  
IMAP.  You have to use it as a POP3 account.

pop.gmail.com for the incoming server and "Use SSL" and  
"Authentication: Password" in the Advanced tab is basically it.

> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060825175256294

> is the link above the best guide for setting things up ?

Um, gmail itself has a guide for setting things up.

<http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275>


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