I thought this might be good news for other gmails users:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Just a reminder, IMAP support in MS Outlook is less than perfect and locks up the app every time the network connection freezes during any imap activity. The solutions from MS, i kid you not, is to kill the outlook process in task manager. Give it a try under another client like thunderbird before you decided what you think about IMAP.

Outlook's poor support for IMAP baffles me. It's been bad since early versions and they just never fix, even when reviewers and users rant about it and point out the obvious flaws and lack of multithreading. I've heard the problem is still present in Outlook 2007.

Not to mention the other anomalies ... you'd think they'd have got it right after, what, how many major releases? Pretty poor product off the MS shelf if you ask me.