Since that time is larger than it takes for the GMail app on my relatively underpowered Android phone to startup and load the All mail label which does it in less than 6 seconds even after I purged its caches. The command I've marked, c SELECT "/All mail" takes about 20 seconds to complete. * OK Predicted next UID.Ĭ OK /All mail selected. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) * OK Gimap ready for requests from 12.34.56.78 So my question is what is known about this secret protocol? Where is the reference documentation for it? Has it been reverse engineered? Does Google sanction its use?Īrnt's answer provides an excellent method to test gmail's raw imap speed: $ openssl s_client -host -port 993 -crlf The reason I'm sure of that is because the Android app can without problem open a folder with 1m mail in < 3 seconds. As far as I can tell, the web interface and the Android app uses a completely different protocol than IMAP - they are not just interfaces on top of it. So, you have to get creative and this is about the cleanest solution I could come up with to accomplish what I wanted to do when sharing from non-Google apps.You can access gmail either using the web interface, Google's Android client or using IMAP. It’s a workaround, I know, but as of iOS 8.1.3, Apple does not let you set default apps in the same way that you can on Android. you can disable notifications for your Gmail account, but leave them on for others in case you use the Mail app for multiple email account. This can be done on a “per account” basis, i.e.
That way, you won’t get double notifications or see the red badge icon showing how many new emails you have.
What this means is that the Mail app is now linked to your Gmail account, but it will not receive any mail unless you specifically tap that app to make that connection, (that’s the Manual part above). Tap that option and change the setting for Gmail from Fetch to Manual, (see image below). Once your account has been added and appears in Settings, look for the option just below it that says Fetch New Data.
Your name, email and password is all you need.Ģ. Start by going to Settings >Mail, Contacts and Calendars and add the Google account you want use for email. However, you also don’t have to use it to check your Gmail (or your Outlook, AOL, Yahoo! or other email services) in Apple’s default Mail app. The truth is, you can’t completely do away with the iOS Mail app for what I am about to show you.
UPDATE: See How to Share Files, Photos & Links via Gmail on iOS for a cleaner, more recent, solution to this problem that Google fixed in an update to the Gmail app. Nobody wants to have the same email in two apps at once or deal with duplicate notifications, so is there another way? In a roundabout way, yes, there is. However, they quickly run into trouble when they go to share a link from Safari or a file from another app and find the default Mail app pops up instead of the Gmail app you want to use. Many people like the idea of using Gmail as the default mail app on their iPhone or iPad, instead of Apple’s iOS Mail app.