Quote Originally Posted by walesrob View Post
I've not had any major problems with GMail's IMAP, but then in my experience IMAP is never consistent - it all depends on mail servers and more importantly, email clients. Thunderbird for example will sometimes choke during Gmail SSL sessions, whereas Windows Mail supplied with Vista is a bit more forgiving with IMAP. The best email client I've seen working with IMAP is Sylpheed.
In the last couple of years its had a few outrages lasting up to a day. All documented at the time by the press. In face some were imap and pop3 the whole caboodle. One from memory was due to a Engineer pressing the wrong button taking the wrong server offline if i recall correctly.

Thats bad enough when its your email but all your work