IMAP with Gmail

Has anyone successfully set up Gmail using the IMAP protocol. I set up a Gmail account but it is not "pushing" mail. It works ok -but you have to manually check or set up for polling the server at intervals (just like with a pop acccount.)
Yes, I have seen the video and, yes, I set the account up manually using IMAP instead of the iphone default (pop) for Gmail.
So now I wonder if Gmail does in fact support "push". Anyone ?
JD
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I see that the Mail application with Leopard has a checkbox to use IMAP IDLE. When I check the box, it does get email from Gmail as soon as it hits the Google server. I had thought that Yahoo uses IDLE and therefore Gmail IMAP might work on the iPhone. No such luck it seems.

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Is there a way to set up IMAP with Gmail & not have it import 3,000 emails?

I just set up my Iphone with the mail setting. I set up my Gmail with IMAP cause I heard that was new and better than POP. The problem I am having is that now that it is set up I have close to 3,000 emails in my inbox. Is there a way to have it import emails that arrive from a certain point on? or to delete all of those old emails at once? I am getting extremely frustrated with all of this email business. It seems so easy but no matter how I set it up it always seems to never work out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It is only better if you access the account with an email client on your computer as an IMAP account as well as being accessed as an IMAP account with the iPhone's email client which provides for keeping all server stored mailboxes synchronized automatically between both email clients used. In addition, you can store sent messages on the server with both email clients and when sending a message with the iPhone's email client, it will be available in the account's Sent mailbox when accessing the account with the email client on your computer and vice-versa which is not possible with a POP account.
I believe there is a setting via webmail access for your account for this.
If not and you are also accessing this account with an email client on your computer as an IMAP account, you can delete the messages from the account's Inbox there and when checking the account's Inbox mailbox with the iPhone's email client, it will be synchronized with the server automatically removing all messages automatically that were deleted with your computer's email client but these messages will no longer be available to you with either email client.
With your computer's email client for any messages that you want to save but you no longer want them available on the server, you can create an additional mailbox stored locally on your hard drive. Transferring messages from a server stored mailbox with an IMAP account to a mailbox stored locally on your hard drive stores the transferred messages on your hard drive and removes them from the server at the same time. Or you can create an additional server stored mailbox or mailboxes with the email client used on your computer or via webmail access for the account and transfer messages from the account's Inbox mailbox to the designated server stored mailbox that was created. This way the additional server stored mailbox and the messages within will be available when accessing the account with your iPhone automatically in case you need to access any of these messages when using your iPhone and you can transfer messages from the account's Inbox mailbox or Sent mailbox on your iPhone to the server stored mailbox created which will also be kept synchronized with the server when accessing the account with the email client used on your computer.

Using IMAP with Gmail

Do I need to set this up using the 'Gmail' option, or the 'Other' option, as I read somewhere that the 'Gmail' option sets up a POP account, not an IMAP acccount.
Cheers

You have to set it up under "Other"(yes the "Gmail" option sets up the account as POP at least for now)
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702

10.5.7 Mail IMAP with Gmail still broken

So when I read an email on the Gmail web interface or on my iPhone, it gets marked as read, and all my IMAP clients happily mark it as read.
All except Apple Mail. If I right click and hit "Synchronize this account" it downloads new messages just fine, but it won't mark any old ones as "read" until I quit mail and re open it. This functionality worked up until about 10.5.5 ish and is still broken as of 10.5.7.
Any ideas?

I wish I could help, but all I can offer is to say I feel your pain!
I have the exact same problem. If I quit and restart mail.app, the unread count is corrected - but this isn't fixed by a 'Get Mail'.
David.

How do I delete a message? Using Imap and gmail

I am using imap with gmail in apple mail for leopard. I get the idea that when you press the delete button it only deletes the inbox tag and it is still available for reference in "all mail" on the left window. I like this, it allows me to clear out my inbox and still reference e-mails later. Here is the question... How do I really delete a message, one I truly never care to see again? My "all mail" is getting out of control.

This is what I do:
In preferences, I set my Gmail account as recommended by Google: I UNcheck the "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox" option under Mailbox Behaviors. Once I do that, clicking "Delete" from the inbox actually archives it into the All Mail, but leaves it in my mailbox.
If there is an email I actually want to delete from my account, I move it from my Inbox to the Trash folder. I do this with a MailActOn keystroke, but you can do it just by moving it or dragging it there.
MailActOn helps a bunch if you have a lot of emails. I process about 300 a day and rely on it for maintaining my sanity, especially since I can set the same keystroke to do different things in different accounts, since I "delete" and "archive" differently for different accounts.

Mail unexpectedly quits immediately with gmail imap

I added my gmail account as imap to mail and now mail immediately quits when I open it... Now I can't get to my company mail because of this. I'd glady remove the gmail account since it appears to be the problem but can't because the app quits so stinking fast.
anyone?

After a lot of head-scratching, and experimentation, it turns out that the problem was with GrowlMail. Even though I had swithced Growl off, and disable the GrowlMail plugin, it still appeared to be loading, according to system.log.
I had to uninstall Growl, and manually delete /Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.bundle. That FINALLY did the trick, and Mail appears to be working OK now.
Once I've successfully sync'd with GMail, I'll try reinstalling Growl, and see what happens.

Apple mail not syncing Sent folder with gmail imap

I'm running Apple Mail 5.0 with Gmail imap. The Inbox folder syncs perfectly. But when I click 'Sent' in Mail the folder is empty. How to keep the 'Sent' folder in sync with the Sent mail in my Gmail account?
Operating system: OSX 10.7
Program : Apple Mail 5.0
Thanks for your help!

This is the iPhoto forum - give the mail forum a shot
LN

Gmail account IMAPed with Apple Mail. Apple Mail Inbox now empty! Where would the messages go?!?

I just synced up (IMAP) my Gmail account with Apple Mail. My apple mail inbox is now empty! Where would the messages go?!?

There is a better forum for issues with iCloud.
Apple has a couple tech note articles to help with email, and with gmail as well.
Try there.
This is just WORKSTATION forum.
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud

Mail won't synch with Gmail IMAP

Same problem as so many other loyal Mac users on these forums...
New Macbook Pro 2013 running Mavericks 10.9.1 and Mail 7.1 (1827).
It's been synching fine with Gmail IMAP for months. Then two days ago, was no longer to synch incoming mail. I can still send Gmail fine. just won't receive new mail.
Yes, I checked my settings. They're fine.
I've spent hours on these forums looking up and trying the various home remedies: Repair Permissions, Take All Mail Offline/Online, Uncheck SHow All Mail Imap, nothing works.
Can we just get the %&*%&$ Mail to WORK?
What else can I do?

Mac Mail stopped synching my inbound GMail last evening. Was working fine for several months on 10.9.x. Non-GMail accounts worked okay. Connection Doctor was all green. Restarted Mail and the laptop a few times. Tried Safe Mode, repaired permissions and system disk.
There's a link to Google support at the bottom of the Mail > Preferences > Accounts window so I clicked it, poked around and found this troubleshooting suggestion on the Known Issues page a few minutes ago (link is below):
IMAP client stopped syncing mail from the server
If you are experiencing problems with your IMAP client, try changing the visibility of “All mail” and “Drafts” labels from the (GMail web) settings:
Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings on the top of any Gmail page.
Select the Labels tab.
Ensure that the "Show in IMAP" checkbox is selected for both "All mail" and "Drafts".
Neither of these were checked as I didn't want "All mail" sent down to my Mac. But changing these settings caused unsynced mail to be delivered. Permanent fix? Who knows? Thought I'd mention it though.
https://support.google.com/mail/known-issues/14973?hl=en&ref_topic=3394215

Mail 6.2 having issues with Gmail Imap

I have issues with Gmail IMAP online on mail 6. Restarting Mail helps getting new messages but soon become offline and cannot be reset. Read may post and tried what was discussed but yet could not find any firm answer. The problem seems started new after upgrade to osX10.8.3

Hey hikari07,
If your Gmail account cannot be added to the iPhone, it might be locked, try unlocking it.
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
-Jason

Apple Mail not working with Gmail IMAP

This is a slight re-working of a post of 27 March as I am being driven nuts having to use web mail.
I have used Mail with gMail for years. Last week I was abroad and I could only use the web interface as when I logged in from my MacBook via Mail the message pane was fine (and up to date though it did not open by default as usual) but if I opened any message all I got was 'Loading' followed by the spinning beach ball. I tried this for several days and always got the same result and assumed it was an (atypical) result of being abroad.
When I got home I found I had exactly the same problem on my iMac which was fine before I left home and as with my MB I have to force quit to get out of Mail.
I then when out and after a restart (not the first since the problem) that my MB was OK - but only briefly. My iMac is still stuffed as far as Mail is concerned.
Mail itself does not seem completely broken, for instance I can look at Previous recipients, I can send from Mail and it arrives back (but then I can’t open it). I can drag messages to the Bin, but they don’t seem to stay there. Oddly I have sent a lot of mail from the gMail interface today, but none of them show up in Apple Mail, tho earlier days do.
I do have a lot of messages in sent mail, nearly 6,000, and while I can understand it progressively slowing things down I don’t see that it would cause both machines to fail simultaneously and anyway I don’t want to delete them.
Any ideas? There are no error messages, Connection Doctor shows me as logged in, and I have not found anything via a Google search or in their discussions.
Cheers, Colin

Opps, the * was an OCR error from the screen dump I did not notice.
plus.net is my ISP, but I don't use them for mail normally but I suspect once-upon-a-time I may have had a problem connecting with gMail's SMTP server, so set that up.
I'm actually running Mail 3 (I think the latest version for Leopard, incidentally gmail help is only up to v 2).
Rather than delete the other servers I have set it to only use smtp.gmail, but it still hangs on opening a message pane. Oddly even tho I get the beech ball I can still open prefs.
I can't help feeling the problem is with Mail itself (tho why on two machines at once is beyond me) as the normal behaviour is always to open with the Message pane, but it opens without a window; almost as soon as I open the Message pane it updates with gmail and deletes any message I have moved on the web side. So, only partly broken, but broken enough to be useless!
Cheers, Colin

New IMAP Accounts With GMail

I'm trying to set up an new account with GMail so that I can get some mail from a domain I own there. While I can log in, receive and send from the web, nothing I try enables me to do this via Apple Mail. Thing is I already have it working from anther domain right there next to the one I'm trying to set up. Both setups appear identical in Mail, what am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

I also get an error when trying to take the account online:
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account “Gmail 2” or try again.
The server error encountered was: Web login required (Failure)
Anyone any idea what that means?

Mavericks 10.9.1 continued incompatibility with Gmail drafts

Having sensed the frustration of Mavericks adopters with Gmail via Mac Mail, I waited until the first update (10.9.1) to install the new OS. I am a heavy user of DRAFTS in Gmail - in some instances to start emails I plan to finish later, and in others to maintain a running set of notes on a project, accessible from home, office or mobile (as they live on the Gmail IMAP server).
I cannot solve the puzzle of how to force DRAFTS to live on the server via Mavericks. They only seem to live locally. Mac Mail shows a DRAFTS folder, and I can begin and save emails to this folder, but they do not migrate to the server.
The "[Imap]/Drafts" folder in picture 2 does not capture draft emails living in Drafts > Google in picture 1.

more griping: selecting a series of email addresses in Excel - one per cell - and then pasting into a BCC field in Mavericks mail is now impossible, as the comma-delimiting feature has been abandoned. here is a workaround (thanks to https://discussions.apple.com/people/frankvv). come on Apple!
As an alternative workaround: add a column in your spreadsheet with a formula that adds a comma to the mailaddress (something like
=A2&"," if you're using Excel).

Remove reminants of aborted attempt to sync with gmail

I attempted to sync Thunderbird with Gmail. I did not like the results, so I removed all the relevant add-ons. all of the visible remnants of this same process went away except now every time I start Thunderbird a separate window comes up asking me to login to Gmail. I can just close that window and proceed with no loss of functionality. However it is annoying to have to fiddle with that every time I restart Thunderbird. My theory is that something didn't get removed.
How do I clean this up?
Thanks Larry

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Mail does not work properly with gmail

Hi everyone. I am a very recent switcher and the switching process was great and extremely easy, but there has only been one problem that I can't seem to solve. Getting Gmail to work with Apple Mail. I followed all the steps on gmail's website on, how to set up gmail for POP, and how to configure Apple Mail to work with gmail, but I still can't get it to download all my emails. It only downloads some old emails, marks them all as unread, and then doesn't act like I have any other emails(which I do). Under system preferences, I have the account type labeled as POP, the incoming mail server set to pop.gmail.com, my username and password set, and the smtp box set to smtp.gmail.com. Under server settings I have the server port at 587, the ssl box checked and the outgoing mail server as stmp.gmail, like I said before. Under the advanced tab of the accounts section of apple mail preferences, I have the account enable box checked, the include when automatically checking for new mail box checked, and down at the bottom, I have the port set at 995 with the ssl box checked. In gmail, under my forwarding and POP settings, I have it set, under the POP download section to: Enable POP for all mail(even mail that's already been downloaded). Also, the status is set to "POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 10/13/05(which was when i first got my gmail account). Like I said before, Apple Mail at first starting downloading all the mail in my gmail account and then stopped after about 1000 to 2000 messages which only got it to about mid-2006 or earlier. Yes, I've run software update recently, too. Does anyone know why it would not dowload the rest of my mail? All help is very greaty appreciated. Thanks.

I just put my gmail account in Apple Mail and it works fine - even transferring my old gmail messages. Maybe your problem is STORAGE - see this from Mail Help:
About .Mac Mail
.Mac Mail works with existing email clients like Mac OS X Mail, Outlook Express, and Netscape Communicator.
You can also check email when you're away from your own computer. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection and a supported web browser to check your .Mac Mail. To access .Mac Mail on the web using Mac OS X version 10.3 or later, use Safari 1.2 or later or Firefox 1.0.1 or later. If you're using Microsoft Windows XP, use Firefox 1.0.1 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later.
Use POP or IMAP protocol to suit your working style and set up automatic email forwarding or replies.
Your email address is your .Mac member name followed by @mac.com, and the password for accessing email is the same as your member password.
Note: AOL recently added support for IMAP, so you can now read your AOL mail using Mac OS X Mail. You cannot use AOL's email program to read .Mac Mail messages directly, but you can set up your .Mac Mail account to forward email to your AOL account.
.Mac comes with 1 gigabyte (GB) of combined email and iDisk storage. .Mac trial members and email-only accounts get 50 megabytes (MB) of storage; Family Pack sub-accounts get 256 MB. You can designate storage space to your .Mac Mail account and your iDisk. For example, if you need more storage space for your email messages, you can set your .Mac Mail storage capacity to 800 MB and reserve 224 MB of storage for your iDisk. You can also increase your combined email and iDisk storage to a total of 2 GB or 4 GB by purchasing more storage. (If you have a trial account, email-only account, or Family Pack sub-account, you cannot increase your storage amount.)
Your .Mac Mail storage is automatically set to 512 MB unless you change it. You can't assign less than 15 MB of storage to your .Mac Mail account.
.Mac comes with 10 GB of data transfer per month and a 10 MB maximum message size. You can increase your monthly data transfer limit up to 250 GB per month by adding more storage space to your .Mac account. You can also purchase up to 10 additional email accounts. (Email-only accounts get 50 MB of storage space but no additional .Mac services, and Family Pack sub-accounts get 256 MB of storage space, but cannot purchase additional email accounts.)
If I had 2000 emails on my computer I would shut it down and never turn it on again.

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