Is it just me or does Google’s Gmail IMAP implementation just plain suck? I have two e-mail accounts, a work e-mail (@dockmaster.com) on an Exchange server and a personal e-mail (@camcollins.wpengine.com). I was using a simple POP account through GoDaddy for my personal e-mail and storing all of my e-mail in folders locally on my laptop. I back my Outlook folders up once per week.

When I got my iPad I decided it was time to get with it. So I started using dropbox for my personal files (which I love!) and Gmail for my persinal mail so my files/folders/contacts will sync with my Google account and I can start living in complete wireless iPad bliss.

I found some great article on moving POP accounts to IMAP using Outlook and then syncing those folders/files with Gmail. Click here to enable IMAP on Outlook and here to see how to sync files/folders.

It’s the syncing part that’s been painful. The files will partially copy and then I’ll get FAILURE notices saying that the server cannot be reached.

I have changed folder names to no avail. The error I get before this says that Outlook lost connection to the server. One I get this error, the error above will come up every time I attempt a subsequent sync. t might just be me and I hope so. Please comment if I am missing something…