Gmail is a Google-owned, web-based email service that includes over 2 gigabytes of storage (and growing). Until now Gmail only offered POP access which would let you read new email messages in your inbox but any changes made to your Gmail inbox on a remote device would not be reflected in your real online inbox but with IMAP now things are going to change.

Google recently announced on the official Gmail blog that Gmail can now be accessed through free IMAP.

IMAP is the best way to access your email from multiple devices (e.g. phone or desktop). It keeps the same information synced across all devices so that whatever you do in one place shows up everywhere else you might access your email.

This would not only let you read your inbox messages on a remote device but even the changes you make to your Gmail account will be reflected in your Gmail inbox using live synchronization. Using this new feature you will be able to use Gmail at your work, in your car or anywhere in the world with any device in a live environment.

To turn this feature on just click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab in your Gmail “Settings” and turn it on.