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Looks like Mr. T has hit a new career low.

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I’ve been using IMAP over Gmail since the kind folks at Google enabled it for all of us.  This is exactly what I wanted in a Gmail IMAP interface.  Here’s how it works.

There is a special folder called [Gmail] that has the following subfolders: All Mail, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash.

These map directly to the folders as you see them on gmail.com.   To mark something as spam from my iPhone, I just have to move it to the Spam folder.  To add a star to an item, you just flag it.  Brilliant.

Along with those special folders, you also have a Drafts folder and a folder per label.  I use many labels to stay organized so this is great.  You can copy an item to multiple folders to apply multiple labels or if you move an item from your inbox to a label it has the same effect as labeling it and archiving it on the website.

When configuring the account for the iPhone, here are a couple things you should do in the advanced settings for your account:

1. Your Drafts Mailbox should be the Drafts mailbox on the server.  This way, all your draft messages are synced in every mail client.
2. Your Sent Mailbox should be on your iPhone.  When you send a message using Gmail’s SMTP server (smtp.gmail.com) it will auto-magically create a copy of the message in your special [Gmail]\Sent Mail folder.
3. Your Deleted Mailbox should be on your iPhone.  Since deleting a message from the inbox archives it when you’re using IMAP, you probably don’t want to do without that feature.  To actually move a message to the Trash on your gmail account, go ahead and move it to the [Gmail]\Trash folder.  To archive, just tap delete.

My Mail.app setup is very similar except I don’t use Gmail’s Drafts folder for my drafts.  There is some kind of Mail.app/Gmail bug where the auto-saved drafts that are created as you type each create a new message on Gmail.  This is super annoying… if you type a longer message you may have a dozen messages on the server by the time you’re done.

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Okay I guess since I mentioned Jess’s new site, here are a couple more:

• Ryan just got mrawes0me.net.
• Diddy got pkasper.com. 

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Jess got her own blog last night: Jessie’s Space

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