Out of Sync - gmail and Apple not on the same page
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 7:56PM 
There's all this talk about sync these days . . . you'd think people are trying to keep a dozen machines on the same page. Google announced it's sync this week which prompted a heated discussion about the merits of MobileMe.
Here's my question . . . what ever happened to IMAP just working as advertised? I've had gmail running on my iPhone since IMAP became available for gmail. Up until a few weeks ago I never had a problem with gmail and the Mail app being in sync. Read a message on the iPhone, it's marked as read in Mail. Read an email in Mail . . . well, you get the idea.
I'm not sure if the new sync release is related to IMAP, but I can tell you this . . . gmail and Mail are NEVER in sync now. I get home from a long day at work and need to mark my messages as open. Even a refresh of mail on the iPhone doesn't seem to push the changes back to the IMAP server to action the emails accordingly.
I haven't tried the iPhone sync released this week, but I'm disapointed IMAP seems to have stopped working as it should. Have you experienced this problem? Let us know