Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for ...

If you've been waiting for an IMAP email client for the ChromeOS ecosystem, wait no more. Jack Wallen introduces you to CloudMagic. I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. Up until now, on my ...

Curious what Google’s Gmail Priority Inbox means for those of us that use an IMAP or POP client like Mac Mail or the Mail function on an iPhone? Well as of yet the feature is not fully enabled on ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re on the road or working at home and you need an important e-mail message. The problem is that you downloaded it at the office ...

Outlook sucks as a POP and IMAP client because of the PST file format. PST is terrible, and prone to corruption. Without an Exchange backend, Outlook has to store *everything* in your PST. Calendars, ...

An April Fools’ Day joke by Google has backfired as Gmail users complained about the so-called ‘Mic Drop’ feature. Reuters If you’ve had trouble with your Gmail, you’re not alone. Google announced on ...

Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP support in the future. Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP ...

In today’s installment of FlippedBITS, I want to examine a handful of common misconceptions about IMAP, a familiar protocol for retrieving email from a server. IMAP stands for… well, thereby hangs the ...

Check out some screenshots of this in action from Rafe Needleman from CNET's News Blog. Question for Gmail/IMAP users: If a message has TWO labels, does it appear in both folders in your IMAP client?