Like every other go-go 80s dollar jockey, one of my first actions on my iPhone was to setup my email accounts.

This is where I ran into a problem. I’d select GMail from the list, but for some reason POP was required, and no matter what I tried I couldn’t use IMAP.

I dealt with POP for few days, but it’s excruciating considering the glaring lack of ‘Mark all as Read’ options on the iPhone’s Mail app.

Fast forward to 2 hours ago and I was yet again setting up another email account on my iPhone, this time it was for work, but once again it was a precious GMail account.

I did a bit of googling to grab the outgoing and incoming mail servers and stumbled across this beautiful document that states there is a bug in the GMail setup on the iPhone that limits you to using POP. The short answer was to select the ‘Other’ option, which I’d somehow completely scanned over.

I’m now sitting pretty with my GMail accounts happily IMAPing away. No more duplication! Happy iPhoning.