Quiet and unnoticed in the Russian-language interface GMail appeared IMAP setting. I recall that two months earlier, this setting appeared in the English-language interface. Then this wonderful protocol could already be enabled, but ThunderBird 2 stubbornly downloaded the entire Cyrillic alphabet in the form of question marks. Now you can successfully use IMAP for Russian-language correspondence. Folders are created and synchronized, subfolders appear in gmail as a shortcut with the name [root folder] / [subfolder]. Reading marks are synchronized with a bang. Instructions for setting up clients have not yet been translated, but in general, we are happy, comrades.
Related Links IMAP GMail Client Setup Instructions (english) PS Pysykal on the Internet - like the old news everywhere, from October last year, when there were still problems with the encodings and the synchronization of the marks on the reading. PS2 According to information from demshin , not everyone in the Russian interface has the opportunity to enable IMAP. Apparently, is testing. PS3 According to the information from mirritil , there is already Russian-language documentation on setting up clients.