Anyone who knows me knows that I've been getting kinda pissed at Google lately; ever since I scored myself an iPhone, I've had to route my mail through another server so I could use IMAP, a type of mail-server setting that allows you to read mail directly from the server, which prevents you from having to mark mail read or delete it over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea. It's a great way to keep all your mail-fetching devices in sync, and since I have several computers plus the iPhone, it's very handy for me.

GMail, however, didn't support IMAP... it used the old, crappy POP server standard, which means that the mail is downloaded to your computer from the server directly, forcing you to have to go through the same mail constantly. Which, when you get as much mail as I do, is a nightmare.

However, when waiting for an e-mail tonight, I happened to pop into my GMail settings to find something quite impressive: the section that deals with forwarding mail and POP access was renamed "Forwarding and POP/IMAP."

This has made me quite the happy guy, and doesn't seem to have been widely noticed yet across the internet, so it looks like I done got myself some breaking news here. Yahoo!!

I mean that as a cheer of happiness, of course, not as a plug of some other site that may have offered IMAP access for a while. Nope. Not me.