Setting up IMAP for Case's GoogleApps
So, Google announced IMAP support for GoogleApps. Here are some screenshots of what it looks like when setup using Thunderbird with GoogleApps@Case.
General settings:
Server settings. Notice the port is 993, the username is "jms18@case.edu", SSL is selected, and "Use secure authentication" is not:
Here's the login box (notice the weird login account "jms18@case.edu@imap.gmail.com"). Also, this doesn't use your Case credentials through login.case.edu; it uses the GoogleApps Fat Client Password (so don't use your Case credentials):
That covers the basic setup. I would recommend following these tweaks from lifehacker.
Set your "Sent Mail" and "Drafts" to Gmail-default instead of Thunderbird default:
Use Gmail's "Spam" folder instead of Thunderbird's "JunkMail":
And this last one is a little bit trickier to do, but it is covered in lifehacker's post – use Gmail's Trash folder instead of Thunderbird's:
After you do all that, you can delete (from GMail's webmail) the labels "[Imap]/Trash", "[Imap]/Sent", and "[Imap]/Drafts".
All in all, it works fairly well. I expected it to be slow, but it really hasn't been. I had always thought of IMAP as an intranet protocol not suitable for the internet. Yahoo! tried once but had to shut it down. I guess if anybody can do it, it's Google.
but what is the SMTP settings to send out???
but what is the SMTP settings to send out???
If you are on campus, continue to use smtp.cwru.edu.
no go. this is incredibly frustrating. can't send mail out on campus or off campus.
If you are using wireless, you have to be on VPN.