Ooh, this is interesting. To me, the killer feature lacking from Google’s great Gmail was the lack of IMAP mail support. In fact, it’s probably the biggest reason why I moved all my mail away from Gmail last year and over onto my own server. But, there are some reports starting to filter through that Google is starting to add IMAP support to Gmail accounts. This is most interesting, and certainly something well worth investigating. Especially so if you’re someone, like me, who likes to use a mail client as opposed to Gmail’s web interface, and also uses multiple machines throughout the day.

UPDATE: It appears that they are only offering this to a limited number of people at the moment (of which I am not one) and I’m not sure what it takes to get yourself enabled. Added to that, when I search for IMAP in the Gmail support site, I get told that they don’t currently support IMAP!

UPDATE 2: It’s now official!