Gmail is fast becoming the most popular email service in the world. The primary reasons for this are that they provide an ever increasing amount of storage space for your emails and also provide a very easy to use user interface. Since Gmail uses Google's search facilities you are able to locate your emails quickly and easily.

Those of you who own an Apple iPhone are no doubt wondering how your Gmail account can be integrated with your iPhone to allow the viewing of your emails to be literally as easy as looking at your iPhone screen.

Your first step in this process is to log into your Gmail account and enable IMAP. After logging in, go to "Settings". After that, next click on "Forwarding" and "POP/IMAP", and finally click on "Enable IMAP".

It is possible to access your Gmail account by adding a protocol called IMAP to your iPhone. This application allows you to check your Gmail account using any offline email reader. This makes it perfect for use with the iPhone. The first thing you need to do is log in to your Gmail account and enable IMAP. To do this log in and go to the Settings section. Under there click on the Forwarding link and under POP/IMAP click on the Enable IMAP option.

The next thing you need to do is to get your iPhone and tap on Settings and then tap on Mail. After that click on Add Account and rather than selecting the Gmail option select the Other option. You will need to enter your name, then imap.gmail.com for the host and then your full Gmail address including the @gmail.com at the end.

Having the ability to check your email wherever you are, is incredibly important in today's world. To have regular access to email once you have activated IMAP in your Gmail account and set up your iPhone you can stay in touch with your email contacts wherever you and your iPhone happen to be.