iPhone OS 3.0 bug allows deleted emails to rise from the dead

Get ready for another big glitch in iPhone OS 3.0: it seems like the Spotlight search cache doesn’t sync message status with the mail client, so you can still pull up old messages with Spotlight if you know the subject line. Yeah, that’s not okay — we just verified that the bug exists on our phones, using both POP and IMAP. We’re not sure when the search cache finally deletes emails, but it doesn’t appear to happen quickly: Matt Janssen, who discovered the bug, says he’s been able to pull up emails three or four months old.

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry now in beta testing

It’s no secret that using Gmail on a BlackBerry is a painful experience — since the built-in mail client has shamefully broken IMAP support, your only real choice is a variant of the same Java-based Gmail app that runs on ancient featurephones, and that rules out direct integration with either contacts or attachments. Yeah, it’s sad, but hope is in the air, as RIM’s apparently beta testing something called the “Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry,” which promises to bring things up to speed

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Make the Palm Pre Archive Instead of Delete Gmail Messages [Gmail Tip]

As with the iPhone, the just-released Palm Pre can sync up with a Gmail account, but doesn’t offer a native Archive button.

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Rumor: Palm Pre Will Support Push Gmail [Palm Pre]

A tipster has confirmed to PreCentral that the Pre, or at least the WebOS emulator, supports IMAP IDLE for Gmail. What does that mean

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