Oh, yes. FINALLY! This means you can keep your read messages synced on GMail accounts, AND have (almost) push.

This is great - such a cool thing to wake up to today! Got my Gmail setup for IMAP and its working with little to no delay and syncs flawlessly!

Is this supposed to take affect today because I'm still receiving my IMAP email late?

My Gmail still seems to be delayed. I just set up my Gmail account (a new one I created) and followed the instructions. I have POP and IMAP enabled inside of Gmail. Does POP need to be disabled?

I run my own web hosting company (and therefore my own web server). So I quickly setup an IMAP only account, then connected the account Rogers BIS. My first message came through within 30 seconds, messages after that were about as fast (or I should say slow) as they always have been.

This slowness has always bugged me so a couple years ago I geeked out and setup my own quick push solution and it works great. Here's what I do: When you e-mail my primary account it leaves a copy on the server and also forwards to my ____@rogers.blackberry.net account. That way I get it instantly. To make sure items I send from my bbry show up in my sent items on the server, I have my rogers.blackberry.net account BCC a 2nd account on the mail server. Then every few minutes a script moves the mail from the inbox on this 2nd e-mail account to the sent items on my primary e-mail account. Voila! The only down side is there's no syncing between the two, but I prefer fast e-mail delivery over syncing.

Hey guys,
These are the steps that I preformed for IMAP to work instantaneously,
Erased my accounts from my BIS website.
Added them again,
this time, I put in the email address and NO password, then it asks to input the settings manually. say yes to that.
then input all ur GMAIL things by yourself
user name : ____@gmail.com
password: *****
server: imap.gmail.com

and there ya go, takes a few minutes to kick in properly

MAKE SURE POP IS DISABLED and IMAP IS ENABLED IN YOUR SETTINGS!
also, add a Label called Sent Items in gmail so that it syncs your sent items from your bb to your web mail application.

Tried it on my BB, still not fast enough for me. Quite a bit of delay

I have had a personal POP server for years (it uses Mailsite Express) I have Mapi access as well as POP access to the server.

Since day one I used POP with BIS

I setup my tmo.blackberry.net account.
Set my pop account to flat forward all email to that account.
Set the BIS account to spoof my POP address (outside of a few month were TMO initially upgraded to BIS, it has been working flawless, as fast as my BES account sending and receiving.)

While i was able to setup a mapi connection as well, I am not really seeing any advantages at this point, I don't have a folder structure on the mail server, so outside of syncing sent items and deletions, if that actually works, what is this going to bring to the table? The sync seems slower than the spoofed tmo.bb.net account.

set up the imap, disabled pop. followed all directions, but when i send an email for my BB it doesn't appear in the "Sent Items" folder on my gmail account.

any suggestions?

maybe a new BlackBerry 101?