Re:Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
by chrisamiller on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:25PM
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I assume that under the hood, they've just set up Gmail as an IMAP client that accesses your other account?
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Re:Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
by Hurdy on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:59PM
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Indeed. The Gmail app itself has been able to act as an IMAP client before, but (as it's purely client side) this mode doesn't offer all Gmail features and is quite battery and bandwidth intensive as IMAP wasn't really designed for mobile devices. With Gmailify, the IMAP synchronization happens on Google servers, which also do normal spam detection and categorization, and the phone accesses the data like any normal Gmail account.
Re:Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
by Artemis2 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:35PM
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Given the specificity of the providers they list, they are probably using their APIs instead of IMAP, which is a lot easier.
Re:Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
by obelisk_ on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:25PM
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Or they've just whitelisted said providers after having either verified that providers IMAP implementations comply with IMAP standards, or they've whitelisted said providers because those providers were big enough that it was worth the trouble for Google to work around issues with those providers IMAP implementations.