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[AnubisIV]

Would've loved to have seen this just a few days earlier. I finally bit the bullet and moved a few years' worth of e-mail from Mail over to GMail since I wanted access to it all from the office, my phone, and from home. Up until now, I've been having to sort my e-mail twice: once on my iPhone or in the office (via IMAP and the web interface, respectively), and then again at home in Mail (via POP3). I'm looking forward to being down with that trouble now.

[joekewe]

Funny timing for me too. I just finished moving my email back to MobileMe from Gmail IMAP today. I love MobileMe email, but Apple gives us no control over their spam filtering. I caught a couple of important business emails which mac.com filtered-out and immediately switched to Gmail. Of course, Apple says MobileMe is only intended for personal use, not "business" grade email.
After a month of Gmail IMAP, I just moved back to mac.com. I may miss an occasional email, but Gmail was a lot slower than mac.com on my fast internet connection and iPhone. I had also forgotten what a pain it is to sift through 100 spam emails a day, and Gmail was marking LOTS of good emails as spam. My ISP and web host each offered about 200 to 500MB of IMAP storage, so I didn't want to switch my 1.2GB of email there. Back to Apple's 10 GB! Thanks Rob.

[zaheeren]

I use GMail IMAP on my mac and my iPhone. The issue i have is that the mails sent from my iPhone does not show up the mac. Any ideas on how to resolve this.

[kpolston]

Hi
I've converted my GMAIL from POP to IMAP and use the Mac OSX mail apps as a client. It works great but I can't delete any emails! When I attempt to delete a message or drag it to the trash it appears to go only to reappear in the 'all mail' folder. My email messages are now indestructible. Is this a feature?

[AnubisIV]

kpolston said:

Hi
I've converted my GMAIL from POP to IMAP and use the Mac OSX mail apps as a client. It works great but I can't delete any emails! When I attempt to delete a message or drag it to the trash it appears to go only to reappear in the 'all mail' folder. My email messages are now indestructible. Is this a feature?

I noticed a similar thing today when I was setting up my GMail with IMAP. As near as I could tell, what was actually happening was that messages I "deleted" in Mail were actually being given the tag of "Deleted Messages" on GMail (GMail works by tags, rather than folders, and the folders you see in Mail are just reflections of the tags assigned to messages within GMail itself). To get around the problem, I had to do two things. I'm on Tiger, so it may be different if you're on 10.5, but the steps are simple enough that you should be able to follow either way.

1) Log onto GMail via their website. Go to your Settings and click on the Labels tab. Make sure that the label marked "Trash" is checked so that it DOES show up in IMAP.

2) Now, back in Mail, wait a few minutes until the Trash folder appears with the other GMail folders (i.e. it is not the same as the Trash folder you already have that has a trash can icon...this one should show up next to All Mail and any other folders you have down with All Mail). When it appears, click on it, then go to the top menu and select Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For... > Trash. That folder should disappear.

What will now happen is that when you delete a message within Mail, it will be moved to your Trash folder in Mail, but the Trash folder in Mail basically just acts like an alias for the Trash folder on the GMail server, and since you wanted the deleted messages to end up in the Trash folder on GMail's server anyway, this achieves the desired effect.

You can do the same thing for your Drafts folder, your Sent folder, and your Junk folder as well, using GMail's Drafts, Sent Mail, and Spam folders respectively.

[griffman]

Gmail does different things with IMAP (I'm not a big Gmail user, so this doesn't affect me; I just use it as a spam trap and read it online only).
Joe Kissel recently wrote up a detailed piece on Mail, IMAP, and Gmail:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10253
Some info there may help with the setup...
-rob.

[kimptoc]

Hi,

Thanks for the video - I am due to review my email setup and this gave me an idea or two.

Any links/reccomendations on the spam trap side of things?

Thanks,

Chris

[griffman]

We'll have reviews of five anti-spam products coming online starting next week, I believe.

-rob.

[John54]

I understand most of the info in the video. And I'm considering switching to IMAP. But if I use multiple Macs and file away finished items in folders on my main Mac, how do they get to the other Macs? Do I have to manually drag from the In Box to folders on all devices? I want ALL mail on ALL devices.