Gmail IMAP setup

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Has anyone here used the IMAP connection via GMail? I'm considering starting to use GMail as my primary account over btinternet. Primarily its so that I can make use of IMAP in order to persist email state over multiple devices (phone, pc, etc - im sick of having to mark an email as read on the phone and then again when I download it in Outlook).

Is it possible to pull the emails out of the IMAP setup and into a pst?

I'm half tempted to maintain the sending functionality, so that it looks to all intents and purposes like im sending from my bt account, but I could start switching to gmail proper, so that I can untether myself from my ISP, allowing greater freedom of movement to other ISP's.

 

cheers.

Another question. if you were to create an outlook profile with just the Gmail account, how do/can you have contacts and calendars? Do you need to just create them in a pst file? or is there actually a way to do it in the IMAP folder structure?