Its a known issue. Click “Report” so they get to fixing it faster.

There is NO WAY I could go back to IMAP after using hosted Exchange for 3+ years now. Cost almost doesn’t come into it, hosted exchange has saved me FAR more than 4Smartphone bill me each year. The tags issues with GMail just make things even worse…

I’m still not quite certain why people feel the need to label and multi-label their emails. With Gmail’s outstanding search features, why do are we so “hooked” on a label or folder requirement? You can make life a lot easier by limiting yourself to a maximum of one folder/label per email account (on top of the “Starred” label.. (or none)

Here’s what I do:

Any item requiring follow-up, I “star”. It goes to the star label/folder autmomatically.

I archive EVERYTHING that I think I might want to refer back to later. If I feel I need a “keyword” of some kind to search on, I simply forward a copy to myself and in the text of the forwarded message, write that keyword (examples could be “tax related”, “registration”, “keys”, etc.)

Then if I really do need to search, a simple email search in Gmail pulls it up. And my folder/labels work fine.

The trick is to only do this in cases where there isn’t already an obvious keyword or phrase in the email itself.

I used to have the same blank email problem with my WM5 device and IMAP, long before gmail ever existed.

As for tags vs folders, now we know why it took so long for Gmail to support IMAP. They had to find a way to support their out of the box features that we’ve come to love so much from gmail. Google really has made it hard to replace their web app with a hard app. But imap still comes in handy for the iPhone and other uses, but I think Mailplane is better suited for using gmail on the Mac.

Exchange is it!!!
Realistically there is no alternative to it.
Sure there are some half baked solutions and workarounds… but even those would not deliver at the end of the day what you get from the exchange – stable sync of all your mail/contacts/calendar/tasks

I have a feeling that some of this is just initial offering issues mixed with some terminology differences between your various platforms.

That said, I had a feeling you wouldn’t be dumping Exchange right away, lol. :)

IMAP is a great way to handle emails, generally speaking, but it still doesn’t solve the calendar/tasks/contacts needs.

Even so, I’m sure I speak for others when I say thanks for keeping us informed! :)

I have a Samsung Blackjack w/ WinMo 5 and I saw the missing mail body issue as well. I had to go to the GMail Mobile site with the browser to see the actual text. Not sure what the issue is as I couldn’t see any reason that they shouldn’t get through.