> You can do this with Gmail just fine since it supports both pop3 and imap out. Gmail's IMAP works, though it's had a number of minor-but-irritating bugs for

> You can do this with Gmail just fine since it supports both pop3 and imap out. Gmail's IMAP works, though it's had a number of minor-but-irritating bugs for years (these bugs even affect the official applications too). I wish they'd fix them - I get that it's not in their interest to support nonstandard clients for which they receive no ad revenue, but that's no excuse here, because they still cause some of the same problems on the Android and Blackberry apps. This article, dated February 2008 (four years ago!) is just as relevant today as it was then. The duplication of messages with broken synchronization is what bothers me the most, as I use offlineimap to handle my mail: http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/02/24/gmails-buggy-imap-implementation http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/02/24/gmails-buggy-...