How can I get Mail to sync properly with Gmail?
I'm finally getting around to setting up my Mail account. I had used it waaaay back in '08, since then I have gotten thousands upon thousands of emails, when Mail opens up it thinks these are all messages I have not read and I have literally something like 3K unread messages (and counting) is there a way I can set it up to read my Gmail account the way it is so I don't have to go through deleting all of these?
One other question: I'd like to set up my work email as well, since right now its Outlook online and God how I hate Outlook Online any special settings to make this work?
Thanks!
You have not clarified if you are using the POP method or IMAP. From what I can figure, you may be using POP method.
If you want mail synced across your devices, you need to set up all accounts as IMAP.
There are excellent blogs and articles out there, just type 'setting up IMAP on mac' or something similar in search engine. here is a good one http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/21/imap.html
There will still be a one time sync process but the status of the messages will not be 'unread' by default as you say.
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