Gmail IMAP arrives … sucks the life from my system

November 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Gmail, apple

I’m not sure what your experience has been but Gmail IMAP is one slow ass system. On my MacBookPro, I left it running overnight to try and sync everything, but even today I am finding my system feels as though it is underwater. I see beach-balls and find navigating even my inbox to be rather torturous.

Force Quit seems to be the only way out … Guess I’ll stick to web Gmail for now. Perhaps I’ll get lucky and the 2.0 version will show it soon … yeah right.

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7 responses so far ↓

1 PhillyMac // Nov 1, 2007 at 9:49 am

Wow. It’s worked great for me using Entorage, Apple Mail and Thunderbird. I’m surprised.
2 Jonathan Greene // Nov 1, 2007 at 9:50 am

it’s unusable! I may kill my account and start over… I seem to be alone here.
3 Bryan Pearson // Nov 1, 2007 at 9:56 am

I also had that problem at first. But after a couple of attempts I actually got it to sync all of the way and it is now working fine. Hope it works out for you.
4 Edward // Nov 1, 2007 at 10:52 am

I had no problems, but did let it sync overnight. After coming back, though, I realized my HD space looked a lil meager — Gmail dl’ed 3.5 gigs of schtuff, even though I’m using less than 2 gigs on Gmail (online).

That said … you may have some meaty attachments mail is getting help up on.
5 tony // Dec 5, 2007 at 5:52 pm

I had no problem setting it up but I *only* have 11k of emails. But I hate that I have all that email on my desktop and I don’t want to only keep everything on the server.

I guess the problem is now that I have what I want (IMAP Gmail), I have to to deal w/ the reality of syncing all that email. Ugh.

But, maybe I’m missing something - has anyone been able to only get Inbox emails? That would be great, it’s the ‘All Mail’ directory that’s killing me.
6 Jonathan Greene // Dec 5, 2007 at 9:04 pm

@Tony it should only have to sync one major time and then just update the differences as you go.

I find I am only using Gmail IMAP on my Nokia Tablet - Gmail Web is still excellent and someting I use primarily on a few computers.
7 Michael Palmer // Dec 10, 2007 at 11:59 am

I have lots of problems using Gmail IMAP with Windows Mail on Vista. It times out several times a day. It always eventually syncs up, but is hardly a stable solution.