Gmail IMAP - no local trash?

I followed Gmail's recommended IMAP settings, as outlined here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78892#
Now I have no Trash in Apple Mail. Any thoughts? Is this normal?

Turns out I was a victim of my own [tight] security. I had a SOCKS proxy enabled on my Ethernet for when I take this laptop on the road...I used it to connect securely to my server back home. Obviously at home my SOCKS proxy was not connecting from within my private network. As soon as I removed the SOCKS proxy, voilá! GMAIL IMAP works perfectly over the USB Ethernet adapter once again.
I hope this serves as a reminder to thoroughly check your network settings before driving yourself mad!
Cheers!

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Gmail IMAP Spam and Trash?

Hello, all.
I access Gmail through IMAP using Apple Mail. According to this document:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657&topic=12762
when I delete a message in \[Gmail]/Spam or \[Gmail]/Trash, Gmail is supposed to delete the message forever. Sadly, it doesn't; it simply marks the message as read.
Has anyone else experienced this? Am I just an idiot?
Thanks in advance,
Raj

I'd think most people would want to use offlineimap for that.
Last edited by byte (2011-10-16 13:13:49)

Dragging local nested folders to Gmail IMAP fails after a while

When dragging and dropping a nested local folder to gmail IMAP, copying commences as expected.
However, after a while, it just stops and fails to replicate the folder structure and fails to copy messages.
Any thoughts on how to proceed? I don't really want to manually re-create the folder structure and manually copy messages as this will take too long!

Hi,
I had tried using that very same extension right after messing things up, but it hadn't worked because I deleted the original folders as well.
Then I tried doing a System Restore (luckily, Windows had decided to do an automatic one the night before), but still the missing emails weren't showing.
A while after that I saw your suggestion and it hit me that I had not tried it after doing the System Restore, so I tried it and all messages were flooding back just like magic.
Thank you very much for your help! I'm very happy right now.

Known issues MOVING local folders to GMAIL (IMAP)

does anyone know if there are any known issues (such as you cannot move a folder and its subfolders) when moving mail from a ON MY MAC Local Folder up to GMAIL which i am accessing via IMAP?
i seem to be able to do this very easy with the right click option when mail is in an INBOX on IMAP but when i try and do this to get info from my MAC PRO into GMAIL (so i have access to it on all my devices) it seems to LEAVE a copy in the Local Folder on my mac and then sometimes the information does not seem to get all the way transferred so i have to go back in and grab the remaining (?) email and move it again or i am grabbing the duplicate email that is in two places and copying it over a second time.
basically, it seems like sometimes it moves it, sometimes it copies it (?) and sometimes it crashes out?
TIA for any help

oof. you are /really/ awesome.
so - how do i know whether i am copying or moving from Local Mail to GMail IMAP?
i mean, when i have a local folder or local folder with subfolders i am literally moving (like drag and dropping) either the parent folder or the subfolder (or when things get really hairy i am dragging and dropping the mail in the subfolders) from one folder in Local Mail ("On My Mac") to the GMail folder.
is this moving? copying?
it is uber confusing (which the right click functionality for mail in a /normal/ IMAP folder is not...)
you know what i mean? i mean, when i get in and have to manually move actual email when something crashes i don't really know if i am re-moving or re-copying mail that has already been transferred or if i am just moving mail that did not get transferred due to a crash.
ALSO, it seems like it /sometimes/ will - well, er, arg - i guess in most cases it is copying the mail since when i do this i am usually having to go back in and verify the emails NOT READ (for instance it will have a red 5 on it or a red 28 or whatever) and then i am doing a delete of the folders that were supposed to have been copied because i am guessing that if the numbers are the same in this instanc then everything has been moved.
BUT sometimes these numbers are not the same which is why i had to post and why things got really hairy over here...
THANKS

Apple Mail, iPad & iPhone mail with GMail imap

Hi,
I'm using a MacBook Pro 13", a iPad 4 (actual retina) and an iPhone 4.
I have issues using apple mail with my Gmail imap account :
Only the inbox seem to be fully compatible with every device I use, but the outbox, for example, seem not to be the same box on all device.
when I send a mail from my MacBook, the sended mail doesn't appear in the Mail's classical outbox but in a sub-box of Gmail box on the bottom, and I can't find any trace of the mail on iPhone/iPad.
Is there anything I can do to make that I have the same Inbox, Outbox, Draft, Spam and Trash boxes in all my device and server.
I tryied with iCloud mail account and this works perfectly !!
If it's not possible, is it possible to set my icloud mail account to be with my own domain name as it is on my Gmail acount ?
thanks

On iOS, there is no local configuration for the Sent Mail. for Gmail, it automatically goes to the Sent Mail folder. But Sent Mail only shows up when you tap Gmail under the Account setings, not in Inboxes. For OSX, however, you may be able to configure a designated folder (that can be either on the local machine or on the account server). To be honest, I can't recall where that configuration is, and do not have the MBP in front of me. This article may help (or provide links to instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5361

Mail program gmail IMAP help

I input my gmail IMAP account info into old 10.5.4 macbook instead of creating a new account. Now my mail account on iphone is empty, and I need to rectify the account on my son's old computer so I don't mess with his content. Getting new macbook pro in 4 days, and need help to navigate a way through this properly. Kindly advise. Ignorant move I know.

Go through all the panels in Mail > Preferences > Accounts > select GMail account, and carefully review all three panels, particularly "Mailbox Behaviors." Sounds to me like you might have some items unchecked that you want checked, and vice-versa, such as "Store draft messages on server," and "Move deleted messages to to the Trash Mailbox," and "Store deleted messages on the server." IF you do not want to keep local copies of what is on the Gmail IMAP server on your computer, select "Don't keep any copies" from the offline viewing pulldown menu on the Advanced tab.
If you are not staying synced with the IMAP server, I wonder whether you have inadvertently made this a POP account (GMail has both)? Verify the "Account type" on the Account Information tab. That is the only way I could envision an IMAP account not staying synchronized with the IMAP server, well, short of misconfiguration of the account's preferences on the other two panels.
A server (in the context of mail) is a mail server which for this account is the Gmail server. Mail.app is a mail client application. You are the mail client. You do not have a mail server on your computer.

Apple Mail vs. Gmail IMAP disagreeing counts

A friend has two iMacs (10.6.5), iPad & iPhone (iOS 4.2) recently switched to gmail for his primary email service.
The problem is that not all the devices “see” the same Sent, Drafts and Trash mailbox.
Working with other IMAP services, I never see issues like this, so I know this is a gmail specific issue - there’s a disconnect between the way Gmail organizes it’s IMAP mailboxes vs. the way the Apple Mail does.
For instance, when you configure Apple Mail for a gmail IMAP account, it assumes your Sent mailbox will be called “Sent Messages”. And on the gmail web side, a Label always gets created called “Sent Messages”. My experience is that without any intervention, when you send email, it shows up in Apple Mail in the proper “Sent” mailbox, but in gmail it shows up in “Sent Messages”, NOT gmail’s Sent mailbox.
For some reason, with a gmail account, the old trick of Mailboxes > Use this Mailbox for doesn’t work because the options are grayed out.
So, how I’ve improved this situation is to open up PropertyListEditor and edit com.apple.mail.plist. There is a key called ‘MailAccounts’ under which is an “item” representing the Gmail account. Underneath, there’s an entry for ‘SentMessagesMailboxName’. I’ve tried changing this to both “Sent Mail” or “[Gmail]/Sent Mail” and both work in the sense that any email sent from Apple Mail ends up in gmail’s Sent mailbox, and NOT in “Sent Messages”
Here’s where the mystery deepens.
In my friend’s situation, when I do this, when path is set to [Gmail]/Sent Mail, I see two Sent mailboxes
in Apple Mail, I see 886 messages in the Sent under ‘Mailboxes’, and 823 in ‘Sent Mail’ under GMAIL section
in gmail, the ‘Sent Mail’ mailbox has 651 items and there exists a “[Imap]/Sent Mail” mailbox which has 609 items
When I edit the plist and change the path with PropertyListEditor to just “Sent Mail”, Apple Mail only shows one Sent mailbox with 823 messages items, but is missing the message sent within the past couple days.
Any ideas how to make sense of this?

No real answer to your problem, but I can confirm the problem exists...I've been chasing it forever. Another issue (that is equally as perplexing) is that no matter how you configure deleted message behavior in Apple Mail, when you delete a message it NEVER shows up in the Gmail TRASH folder. If someone would just create a definitive guide for using Gmail and Apple Mail they could probably sell it.

Gmail IMAP *was* working with Apple Mail - days later it's stopped working.

Hi all,
I recently started my Gmail IMAP account over in Apple Mail and Mobile Mail in order to get it working properly across an iMac, iPhone and MBP. I followed Gmail's IMAP settings to the letter and the only thing I couldn't get working was for the Trash folder in Gmail's server to take the place of the Trash icon that Mail has. While Sent and Drafts were represented correctly once I did the "Use this Mailbox for..." thing, Trash never moved up there.
Turns out that when I've been deleting emails in Apple Mail, they haven't been deleting in the Gmail inbox. They just sit there, label free. In the meantime, the fact that the server Inbox is stuffed full of label-less emails isn't reflected in the other applications, and deleting an email in Apple Mail does not delete it from Mobile Mail. Similarly, mails I've moved in Apple Mail from the Inbox to the Gmail folders are not reflected in Mobile Mail, where they remain in the Inbox. Furthermore, on the server the mails appear to have the correct label for the folder I moved them to in Apple Mail, but on the server they are still in the Inbox.
I'm confused. The Gmail server inbox seems to be acting like All Mail now - in that I move something from the Inbox and into a Gmail folder using Apple Mail or Mobile Mail, but on the server they just stay in the Inbox and have a label added. They sit in several places at once. This is not what's supposed to happen!
Furthermore, now any emails I write in Apple Mail and Mobile Mail start saving drafts every few seconds then saving these as new emails in 'Drafts', and on the server saving them as multiple different versions of emails. If I send an email, I do not need to save every single variation every 10 seconds. Even if I don't send an email I don't need that. It wasn't doing this before, why has it started now?
I thought I'd got this all sorted but clearly I don't.
How do I achieve the following:
1) In Apple Mail and Mobile Mail, have an Inbox, Drafts, Sent and Trash box at the top, in which changes are reflected on the server and vice versa.
2) If I move an email in the above software from Inbox to a Gmail folder, the email on the server moves from Inbox to that folder, but remains in All Mail.
3) If I delete an email on the above software, it's moved from wherever it is to the Gmail Trash folder, where it's deleted after 30 days. It does NOT simply lose a label and remain in the Inbox or even in All Mail. If I delete something, I want it gone EVERYWHERE.
4) Don't save my Drafts every 10 seconds. Ever.
It can't be that hard to do this, can it?

Hmm, turns out my iMac Apple Mail has been resetting the Mailbox activity settings for some random reason which would explain the drafts problem. Wonder why?

Should I give up on Gmail IMAP?

Can somebody help me feedback about my Gmail IMAP problem, please?
I switched from pop to imap in November and as a first step successfully uploaded my ~2GB of old pop messages up to gmail to have everything in sync. I did this by copying the old folders across into the gmail folder and as far as I can tell this worked fine - all messages are there in gmail with correct labels.
I also set up gmail just right, I think, with the Sent, Trash and Draft folders of Mail.app mapped correctly to their gmail counterparts.
So what's my problem, you may ask? Well, I find with this set-up, Mail.app has become so slow and dangerously unreliable that I just cannot work with it. As soon as I am online or open a folder, Mail starts very lengthy caching and synching processes that seem to near freeze all action. For example, opening folders can take forever and I cannot use Mail Act-on properly as it just takes waaaaayyy to long.
But what's worse, although I have the option checked to download full messages and attachments, because I want to have copies for offline viewing, this doesn't work properly! All old messages should have still been on my mac in the first place, as I copied them from there, but they are not. Many are blank or garbled, when they appear fine in Gmail.
Finally, it seems that the data tranfer/caching/synching old folders that Mail.app attempts as soon as I go online somehow buggers up Gmail remotely, as when I have Mail running online, I often have problems receiving messages - they will arrive with lags of several hours, which is a total dealbreaker for me.
I tried switching to not downloading messages but it didn't even make a difference
My question is now, can anybody think of a way to solve my problems and still use IMAP, or should I just revert to pop and manually update what I have read and keep my sent messages in sync?
I probably use gmail's web interface for most reading and quick writing, but absolutely want to keep offline copies and use mail for the great ical and address book integration and for emailing with ease from apps like iPhoto and Journler.
Am really gutted that IMAP doesn't seem to be working out for me and would be very grateful for any tips.
Many thanks,
Nora

Hi there,
Interesting to read that you have a Rule to move Mail into 'All Mail'...
This is not necessary, 'All Mail' contains a 'copy' of every message, including Sent, and every message in your Folders, so you are moving a message into a folder that already contains a copy of that message (if I am guessing correctly).
A quick theory (as an example), if you have 500 sent messages and 250 in your Inbox and Folders, All Mail will contain 750 messages - copies of your 500 sent and 250 received Mail). Again, this is so Google can have 'Labels' instead of Folders on the Web side of Gmail.
Try stopping this Rule from moving messages to All Mail and see if that helps with your syncing...
Regarding your post before the last one, if you have 20,000 sent message alone, my best guess (in ideal situations) is it would take *at least* 3 or 4 days to successfully Sync with Gmail's servers...
Have you thought about Archiving your messages, for instance by year? I say this because syncing 20,000 messages will take an awfully long time, no matter how fast your internet connection is or how streamlined your database is. Also, do you actually need access to 20,000 messages at the click of a mouse? By archiving you can save Disk space and have a faster sync... a little link here:
http://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/archive_email/
It isn't a serious problem in OS X Mail with IMAP, because every message is a small file (you can see them in ~/Library/Mail) so there is no chance of the database becoming corrupt so badly that your messages are lost... unlike Outlook which stores EVERYTHING in one file (all your eggs in one basket, anyone?) and I have had that happen to clients. Once Outlook decides it cannot read a PST file, that is pretty much the end of the road for your messages!
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Jamie

Gmail IMAP Behaviour in Mail

When I delete email, the messages still remain in the Gmail/All Emails folder using IMAP.
Is there a way to delete the messages completely? I like keeping my Gmail folders clean and empty and when I delete an email, it's because I no longer need it, so would like it to not remain in my Gmail/All Emails folder.
I may revert to POP if there is no workaround.

GEORGE!!! YOU ARE A GOD SEND...
Thank you so much for your input. Not only has that resolved the issue, I also applied the same principles with Gmail/Spam and Gmail/Sent Items too. I clicked on the Gmail/Spam IMAP folder in Mail.app and clicked Mailbox menu, Use This Mailbox For - JUNK, etc etc same for Sent Items.
Now ALL my IMAP accounts are working exactly the way I want.
I have 2 email accounts. One for work, one for Gmail. Both IMAP. I always wanted to use the Mail.app Trash Can and Junk folder for ALL trash and junk emails, but Gmail had it's own system which I didn't like, up until now thanks to you.
Also, I hated my sent items sitting on gmail's server. (i use gmail's outgoing server when i travel and aren't using my isp outgoing server)
I selected Delete Sent and Trash Items when Quitting Mail under Mailbox behaviours so now all my trash and sent items from gmail now actually get trashed and dont stay on gmails servers.
Thanks again for all your help. I've only recently switched from POP to IMAP because I'm gearing up for the iPhone and I can now see how much better IMAP is when accessing email from multiple devices.

Rules problem and sluggishness in Gmail IMAP

I just plugged in my Gmail IMAP settings into Mail, and it is not listening to rules set to move all of my sent mail into a sent folder (into either the "on my mac" or the "gray globe" folders). The mail from me just sits obstinately in the "all mail" or "Inbox" folder.
Also, every time I select an IMAP folder, it decides it gives me the little piechart time indicator symbol and I have to wait 20-30 seconds to see my messages.
Ideas?

First of all, for the issue w/ the sent/junk/trash/drafts folder - if you select any of those folders in the sidebar, then go to the 'Mailbox' menu and select 'use this mailbox for' - you can manually set those folders to be used as the default folders - so in turn no need to use the rules. -The inbox however should store all incoming messages automatically.
One issue that I need to point out is that for some reason Gmail is placing all the chat logs from Google Talk into your 'all mail' folder...
Now why Gmail IMAP is so horribly slow compared to most other IMAP services, I honestly don't have a clue, and I must add I'm having the exact same problem.

After 10.5.6 Update - Mail & Gmail (imap) not syncing correctly

After updating to 10.5.6, Mail is not syncing with my Gmail (imap) accounts correctly. For example, I will receive an email and have notifications both in Mail and my iPhone. If I read the email from my iPhone, Mail will not show the email has been read or deleted unless I quit and reopen. Gmail does, however, show the email as read or deleted almost immediately. Manually syncing Mail with an account doesn't work. Only quitting and reopening Mail. Any suggestions?

That's a shame. Did you read earlier:
ERNIE STAMPER wrote:
No problem with Gmail IMAP account here, although not using with an iPhone. Are you accessing your Gmail account from Mail as an IMAP type account?
Also, in some other discussion, I read that someone trashed their "com.apple.mail.plist" in their home/library/preferences folder and restarted
mail and it was successful, including each message where they were supposed to be.
I try and find that link.
FOUND THE LINK:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8697858#8697858
(whilst it was about force quitting, it may be related - decide for yourself)
JOESWELL wrote:
...in essence, the last post is: I solved the problem by dumb luck. I ended up >"googling" - "10.5.6 Mail" and located a another discussion about this issue.
http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/458596
ReMacBook_issues_afterupgrad
One of the "fixes" offered was to delete the file "com.apple.mail.plist." I >deleted the file, and mail opened up correctly and worked perfectly. All my >daughter's folders, emails, etc were all there as before.
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GMail IMAP All Mail does not match Apple Mail

I have a GMail account that I also access via Apple Mail setup as IMAP. I've been trying to delete some emails from this GMail account. I first did the delete in Apple Mail (AM) but somehow the deleted emails would show up a few minutes later. So next I did the delete directly on the web based GMail account. After I got done, the emails seemed to have been deleted on my GMail account. At this time I had ~11,000 items in the GMail All Mail folder.
But when I looked at AM, the IMAP Gmail All Mail has over 21,000 items which includes all of the items I had deleted from GMail.
I tried deleting the IMAP account all together and made sure that the GMail IMAP folders in the Library was removed. Then I recreated the IMAP account in AM and within about 30 minutes, all of the 21,000 items including the emails that no longer exists in the web based GMail account came back.
I like the convenience of having access to All Mail in my AM but it seems I don't have control over the contents. Can anyone explain what is going on and how I might be able to actually delete the files within AM?

cymorrow wrote:
"what I mean is that you have two copies of everything in Apple Mail. everything that's in your gmail inbox in Mail or in any of the other mailboxes is duplicated in the All mail mailbox."
I don't keep them in both places, after I have read the message and have responded, I delete the message from my AM inbox because I know a backup already exists in All Mail.
this is up to you and you can do as you like but this is the long way to do it and you'll be fighting gmail as you are if you keep using it. it's much simpler IMO to keep messages you don't want to delete in your inbox. as it is you do download every message twice even if you delete one copy afterward.
I want to clean out all of the junk mail that gets kept by GMail in All Mail and that is why I am trying to delete these items.
that's just it. there is no easy way to do it. All Mail is the master mailbox for everything you ever received. gmail wants to keep all of them forever and they are hard to get rid of.
I seem to have deleted them from the web GMail but they keep showing back up in the AM All Mail. That must mean GMail is still keeping these "deleted" items somehow/somewhere so that when I create a new IMAP account, AM is downloading them again.
I suspect you haven't emptied trash in webmail gmail.

A different sort of problem with GMail IMAP on Mail.app (Tiger)

I setup my GMail account using IMAP under Mail.app (Tiger). At first it worked fine. But now it just hangs when I go to the Inbox. I get the clock or pie or whatever that is next to Inbox. In the Activity Monitor I see...
[[email protected]] Performing pended
Copying Message
[INBOX - [email protected]] Opening mailbox...
Opening mailbox...
I have let these sit for hours (we're talking over 12) and it gets nowhere. I have removed the account, deleted the associated files under ~/Library, recreated and it just comes back. I can use Thunderbird without any problems at all.
Any ideas what might have happened? I did uncheck saving drafts, trash, and junk on server as Google suggests.

Try this to determine the scope of the problem:
1. Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts and create a new user account for testing purposes.
2. Either log out of your main user account or just quit Mail so that it does not interfere with the other user account.
3. Log in as the newly created user and set up the Gmail IMAP account there.
4. Check whether the problem also happens when logged in as another user.
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Do you have any Mail plug-ins or system utilities that could interfere with Mail? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/StartupItems/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/StartupItems /Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchAgents /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/LaunchAgents ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Help with Gmail IMAP in Mac Mall: Folders transfered from Exchange server

I'm in the process of migrating a mail account from an Exchange server over to Goggle Apps. I've transfered all old mail and the existing Exchange folder structure over to Gmail. Gmail doesn't recognize folders but instead reads the folder structure as Labels. When the account is subsequently imported into Mac Mail it appears that the orgiginal Exhange folder structure holds on the other side, which was my intent. These folders appear in Mail within the Mailboxes>Inbox.
However, there doesn't seem to be a way to insert a new folder into the Gmail IMAP account within the Inbox folder structure. I have successfully created a new "Mailbox" in Mail, but this appears to get inserted into the local version of the Gmail account much lower on the left hand side bar. It seems that I can pick up the "Mailbox" once it is created and move it up into the intended location, but only as a sub-folder. I am not able to promote it to the desired heirarchy or intended location.
Does anyone have any history with this or possibly a fix or suggestion?
Thanks!

My recollection is that unless you are a paid Hotmail account member, you cannot use Mail. Do a search within the discussion group, as I am not an expert, but I recall not getting Hotmail for that very reason.
Perhaps give gmail a try.....
That said....I still need some help with my posting! So please and thank you.

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