For several years now I’ve used GMail along with Thunderbird (if you are a Thunderbird user and haven’t tried Thunderbird 3 and its tabbed email, then give it a spin.  Its pretty sweet) as an email client and POP3 to access, read, and send email.  Its been a nice solution for me and I’ve had little to no trouble.  With the recent acquisition of an iPhone however, I had been itching to switch everything over from POP3 to IMAP.  Afterall, accessing your email with POP3 on multiple computers/devices leaves you open to not only losing emails, but its a tremendous waste of time to have to sort thru emails on your desktop, then sort thru the same ones on your laptop, iPhone or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »