[ Lewis Pike wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 16:33:53 -0400 ] > If anyone has a alternative solution that could also meet my needs, > I'd love to hear about it. > -- Lewis
Not knowing about the environment you have set up but I personally have my Gmail email forwarded to my local machine by smtp. Other solutions could include offlineimap, fetchmail perhaps. But it seems you would like to keep using the IMAP protocol to read mail so those options may not be of use to you.