Ok. So this sounds a bit geeky but from a practical point of view, GMAIL's launch of a free iMAP service is wonderful news.
iMAP is a protocol for hooking up your e-mail software (like Entourage or Outlook) to a e-mail server or service (like GMAIL). Previously GMAIL used a protocol called POP. This POP way downloaded a copy of the e-mail to your e-mail software and that was about it.
iMAP is cool because it basically keeps whatever you have on GMAIL synced with what you have on your e-mail software. AND it does it with multiple computers or PDAs or iPHONES or whatever.
What this means is that you can have a laptop and a desktop and have exactly the same e-mail on both. If you read an e-mail on the laptop it will mark the e-mail as read on both the laptop and the desktop. If you send from the desktop, a copy of the sent e-mail will be on the laptop. Completely synchronized.
This all makes GMAIL vastly superior than what our local ISPs like paradise provide in NZ and very useful for the way I have our computers set up.
Instructions are under help on www.gmail.com
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