Mail and Gmail IMAP

Hello, having weird and annoying issues with Mail application.
Sometimes my ports just switch by themselves from 587 to 25 for SMTP. Is there a reason for it? Any fixes? Can't provide more details on this, very random.
After working 3 or so days my Gmail account stops working. Asks for passwords but it never accepts it. My office POP account also stops working. Have to restart the mac couple times to get the connections working again.
Are there any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

In the list of available SMTP servers to use as the Outgoing Server, is there more than one entry for the Gmail server? If or when pared down to only one, have you selected "use this server only"?
What model Mac are you using, and how much free, available, disk space do you have on the hard drive, or if partitioned, on the boot partition?
Ernie

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Apple Mail and Gmail IMAP

With the iPhone coming to Verizon soon, I'd like to move back to Apple Mail from Gmail, but still want to keep Gmail as my source because my domain is setup with Google Apps but mostly because of the unparalleled spam filtering Gmail has. My problem is that even though I've configured Apple Mail exactly as Google recommends (shown below), I still have some issues.
From the Mail menu, click Preferences > *Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors*
Drafts:
Store draft messages on the server > *do NOT check*
Sent:
Store sent messages on the server > *do NOT check*
Junk:
Store junk messages on the server > checked
Delete junk messages when > Never
Trash:
Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox > *do NOT check*
Store deleted messages on the server > *do NOT check*
I want to have true IMAP functionality here, but I'm not getting it. Sent messages work fine...if I send a message, it shows up in Apple Mail in the Sent folder and when I go to Gmail it is also in the Sent folder. BUT...when I delete a message in Apple Mail it goes to the Gmail *All Mail* folder (in Apple Mail and Gmail) and never shows up in the Gmail Trash on either Apple Mail or Gmail...where it should. I've tried changing the settings under *Apple Mail > Trash* but that doesn't fix the problem.
I realize some of you might be inclined to say "It's Google problem...ask there" but I'm hoping a Gmail user here might have had this same issue before. Even as a dedicated Apple person for many years, I still can't give up Gmail and their spam filtering that Apple Mail can't come close to. Thanks for any suggestions.

Thanks, Andy. I should have posted a closure statement on this thread as I finally figured everything out. The most frustrating thing is Google's own advice at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# couldn't further from correct. After many hours of experimenting with settings, I finally came up with the correct ones. In fact, I'm in the process of writing an article about it since there is simply no definitive guidance on the web that I've been able to find in the time I've searched.
Your comments are on target...everything on the *Behaviors Tab* needs to be checked (excepts Notes) and the *Delete when* settings must be set to Never. But there are a few other things that must be done, including some changes on Gmail Settings before Mail and Gmail will be perfectly synchronous. I'll post the entire solution on this forum when I finish the graphics.

Mail and Gmail IMAP: duplicates in sent folder

Hi there,
I recently set up my Gmail account for IMAP and configured Mail.app accordingly. I have several mail accounts which all get directed over my Gmail account. It all works fine, but whenever I send a mail from Mail.app from one of my mail accounts, it appears twice in my sent folder in Mail.app (it's not sent twice, I checked that, and it appears normally in the sent folder of the web interface).
It's seriously clucttering my sent folder, does anybody have an idea how to fix this? Maybe a problem with labels?
Help greatly appreciated,
J

Anyone? No idea?

How do I keep duplicate messages in Mail and Gmail?

For the past few years messages would appear in both my Mail and Gmail inboxes. If I deleted a message in Gmail, the duplicate would REMAIN in Mail. Therefore, I could keep some messages in my gmail account that pertained to work and delete their duplicates in Mail (since I wouldn't need them at home). Likewise, I could keep some messages organized in my Mail folders and delete their counterparts in the Gmail account.
At some point I must've downloaded an update or something because the accounts are now totally synced. If I delete a message in my Gmail inbox (or even move it to a Gmail folder), it vanishes from my Mail inbox.
I know this is how most people like these programs to work together, but is there a way to revert it back to the way it was? I tried toggling off POP, then testing it (didn't work). Then I toggled off IMAP (still didn't work). Then I toggled both of them off (still didn't work). My Mail account is listed as IMAP for what it's worth.

Try posting this in the 10.7 Mail forum. You'll get more help there.
DALE

Problem with Apple Mail and GMail

Can anyone help me with the following problem. I use Apple Mail as my client and GMail iMap as my server. When I create mails I often get a problem (I think caused by the trackpad) where the mouse jumps and I seem to generate a spurious draft email. The result is that I have a mailbox called "All Mail" in the Mail sidebar which contains over 10,000 messages, even though I only have a few hundred real messages (inbox, sent and spam) and my drafts folder is empty. In this mailbox there are numerous versions of the same emails saved during the creation of the email, all slightly different. I just don't understand what is going on.

Hi There
For Gmail setup using apple mail use this guide
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
POP access on yahoo accounts is not free. A yahoo mail plus account is needed.
As far as I am aware Hotmail does not allow any POP access at all. I couldn't find any specific information on POP access in Hotmail's help site.
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Mail with Gmail IMAP: All mail getting marked as read

So other than being painfully slow, and just plain irritating, I have one huge problem with Mail (Tiger) and Gmail IMAP. All incoming mail is marked as read. The mail downloads, gets sorted into folders by the various rules, but the folders never show up with a number showing new messages. I have missed so many emails lately, I think I will have to go back to POP...or add a line to every single rule saying "mark as unread".
Is there a simple solution to this problem I am overlooking?
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Yeah, the stupid part is that all SPAM comes marked as unread. So I get to see that I have spam, just not legitimate mail. Ugh.

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I was wondering if this is possible or if this even exists.
I am subscribed to RSS feeds in Apple Mail which I love reading on my iMac. But when I'm at the office on a Windows machine I can only read my RSS feeds through Gmail. It's hard to keep track of what I haven't read and have read.
Is there a way to sync which RSS reeds which are read/unread with Apple Mail and Gmail?

Thanks, Andy. I should have posted a closure statement on this thread as I finally figured everything out. The most frustrating thing is Google's own advice at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# couldn't further from correct. After many hours of experimenting with settings, I finally came up with the correct ones. In fact, I'm in the process of writing an article about it since there is simply no definitive guidance on the web that I've been able to find in the time I've searched.
Your comments are on target...everything on the *Behaviors Tab* needs to be checked (excepts Notes) and the *Delete when* settings must be set to Never. But there are a few other things that must be done, including some changes on Gmail Settings before Mail and Gmail will be perfectly synchronous. I'll post the entire solution on this forum when I finish the graphics.

Apple Mail 3.2 and GMail IMap

Hi,
Yes, I know this topic has been discussed on this forum before, but I have not 100% been able to put the pieces together.
I can get Apple Mail 3.2 running Gmail via IMAP with no problem by following the instructions on the google site:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81379
Then I set my account as directed by Google for recommended account settings:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892
I am able to send and receive email. But I see some quirks:
1. When I send a message, it is not stored in the Apple Mail "Sent" box. It just remains empty. Why?
2. When I sent my first message the "Store Sent Messages on the Server" became checked even though I unchecked it during account setup. Why?
3. If I have multiple gmail accounts that I set up in Apple Mail 3.2, will they all be under one Apple Mail 3.2 "Inbox" combined?
Thanks for your help.

Hello Hal:
I think you will get a better answer to your question by contacting G-mail. In my case, I use AOL mail in Apple's mail application. AOL catches the vast majority of spam/junk and it is placed in a spam folder. The few that get through seem to be trapped by Apple's mail and placed in the Junk folder.
Barry

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Hello.
I have managed to configure my exchange account in Mail, and it seemed to be working fine until yesterday. Today however, I am experiencing some odd behaviour in my mail accounts:
- My two Gmail accounts (IMAP, syncing through Mobile me) are moving incoming email straight to ALL MAIL and skipping inbox.
- I am not receiving new emails from my exchange server to my exchange address, but to my Gmail address (not to the inbox but to All mail).
Should I turn off syncing through Mobile Me since I am already using IMAP?
I desactivated the exchange account and reset the sync data, now at least the Gmail accounts seem to be working.
Anyone having these kinds of problems with the exchange

Having the same problem and recently it is duplicating contacts as high at 10+ times in some cases, did you get a fix for this? if so find me on beehive and share it with me please?

Mac mail and gmail are not syncing

I just bought my very first mac computer, the MacBook Pro. I set up my Mac Mail to my gmail account. My gmail account won't sync up to my macmail though. All the messages are there as well as my contacts and the mac mail receives new emails when I get them, however they are not synced up. For example, when I delete a message in mac mail, it doesn't delete on my gmail account and vice versa. How do I get it so the two are synced?

Bostin wrote:
paulgiunta wrote:
I just added Gmail to my Apple Mail and the only thing that I am trying to "fix" is that when I delete an email in Apple Mail, it shows up still in the Gmail inbox with the label "deleted messages" or without the label depending on what settings I use in Apple Mail.
How do I get these messages out of my inbox?
I am having same issue. This is a new development as I don't recall it doing this before. I was using the delete button in mail and this would archive the message (my desired behavior)...
not sure why there aren't moving out of gmail's inbox...is it possible Google is working on something behind the scenes?
Fixed this one issue (at least for my setup)...
It's a little misleading but it's the advanced imap settings in gmail's settings that was throwing me off...
Under the the "expunge" settings
x Immediately expunge messages when I mark them deleted in IMAP
Do not automatically expunge messages
Makes the "delete" button in Mail "archive" the message and move it to "All Mail"
Immediately expunge messages when I mark them deleted in IMAP
x Do not automatically expunge messages
Makes the "delete" button in Mail remove it from the folder in Mail, but not in Gmail, unless it's a message that is expunged from the last visible IMAP folder, then it goes by the second set of settings (archive, trash, delete immediately) that are only available if "do not automatically expunge messages" is chosen...

Mail and Gmail two-step verification

For the last several days I've been encountering an issue with Mail.app and gmail where my application specific password is valid for one day only. This is not the case for the application specific password I have set up to work with Mail on my iPhone or any other apps. I have used two step verification successfully for months until one day, inexplicably, I was alerted that my password was incorrect. As I mentioned, this happens now on a daily basis.
For what it's worth, I've tried what's listed in this thread to no avail.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15206873
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi All,
I used to have that sort of problem,
first you could go to the connection doctor on you mac (it's on your 'Window' - > 'Connection Doctor' )
then check if your google account 'Smtp tab ' and 'Imap tab ' are all on the green light
If one of it is not connected ( Which means 'red' light ) , here is my solution .
Go your keychain access ( comman + space 'keychain' )
click tab 'LOGIN'
On the search tab Find either SMTP/IMAP (Depend which got the red light)
There will be several accounts shown up if you have multiple email account registered on you mac mail.
find manually the account of your gmail account (Double click each one of it to check which account it )
Check again if you have 2 key chain on one single account
After you find your google account on your key chain and check the box "SHOW PASSWORD"
Change the password according to the google 2 step verification password
click save changes . (enter your admin password)
Hope this will help
K

Advice on archiving mail using Mail and Gmail?

I use webbased gmail most of the time, but I do have the Mail app set up through imap, mostly as a backup (so I can access my mail when offline, so if gmail ever accidentally loses all my email I'll have it, etc). When I first configured it, it downloaded all my old mail (I think). I'm pretty sure that includes attachments, sent mail, everything. The only problem is my hard drive is getting kind of full and I want to clear off some space by moving stuff to my external drive. I'm thinking about moving a lot of my old email to my external drive, but I'm not sure the best way to do it. Will I still be able to access it through the Mail app? Will removing it make the Mail app just want to download all those messages from gmail again?
Ideally I'd like to set it up the way I use two iPhoto libraries and iPhoto Library Manager, but I have no idea how to do something like that for mail.
Help? Thanks!

Terabithia wrote:
I thought there were problems with POP downloading duplicate messages or failing to download messages, that's why I wasn't using it. Does it work ok with gmail's archiving rather than deleting thing?
POP does not mainain any syncing once the messages have been downloaded so you can just move or delete any messages from a POP mailbox without fear of this happening on the server.
What if I archived my current mailbox, moved it to an external drive, and then switched to Pop. How would that work?
that could work and is an option. you can set gamil to only download POP messages that arrive from now on. that's done in gmail webmail->settings->POP/IMAP. you can archive your current IMAP gmail mailbox. then delete the gmail account in Mail and recreate it as POP.
but as I said, another option is to keep gmail IMAP but change what it keeps locally.
If I wanted to open one of my old messages from the archived mailbox, what program would it open in?
you'd have to import the whole archive back into Mail.
Would it all still be searchible through spotlight (when the drive is plugged in of course)?
no. Mail archives are not spotlight searchible. if you want that option instead of archiving using mailbox menu->archive mailbox you can do the following. quit mail. then go to the folder homedirectory/library/mail. locate the gmail imap folder inside and copy it to the external. it will then be searchible via spotlight and you could open individual messages too assuming you do have all messages completely downloaded to the hard drive now.

Mac Mail and Gmail Sync

Firstly, I'm posting this in the iCal section because there's not a dedicated Mail support section, and I think my question may be similar to some iCal concerns.
With the advent of 10.6, I know it's now possible to sync your "Contacts" contained within your Mac address book with Gmail. I also know that for some time it has been possible to import your Gmail contacts to Mac Mail.
My question considers the reverse - that is, it is possible to export your Mac Mail contacts to Gmail, and even better, possibly keep them synced. Often, Mail contacts and Address Book contacts are not one and the same. I'm specifically referring to the email addresses and names that Mail autocompletes when you type in the "To:" or "Cc:" fields. I only have 100 contacts in my address book; I know I have many more stored somewhere within Mail. As of now, however, I am unable to find them and unable to use them when using Gmail on the web. It would be great to be able to write an email to a new address in either Mail or Gmail, and be able to bring it up later from a different computer.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Kevin

It sounds like you've got Gmail set up in Mail on Leopard as a POP account. This would cause problems with how it synchronizes with other clients (like your iPhone) accessing the same mail account. The iPhone by default uses IMAP for Gmail access, which is what you should use if you are going to access Gmail with more than one client on a regular basis.
Once that is done, make sure you use the recommended settings for Apple Mail in order for your Gmail account to behave properly.
Lastly you should 'map' your folders so that Mail uses your Gmail folders for it's like folders. Using your Sent folder issue as an example, once you've set up Gmail to use IMAP you'll see a folder named [Gmail]/Sent. Click on that folder and go to the menu Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Sent. That folder will disappear from the folder pane and when you click on the Sent folder, the items in your Gmail Sent folder will now show up.
Edit: I just noticed that you say your MBP is using Snow Leopard. The settings should be exactly the same, but in the future you should post your questions about Snow Leopard (10.6) in the Snow Leopard forum.
Message was edited by: Euchre

Broken Archive Behavior with Yosemite Mac Mail and Gmail?

Hi -
It seems that with the Yosemite upgrade of Mail, the archive behavior with gmail (google apps) has broken. You can not change the Archive command to select the archive folder. The command just seems just to move the message from the Inbox to to the All Mail folder and no longer shows any messages in my folder called Archive. I have to go to gmail web to view these messages. This broke from Mavericks where I was able to archive to a mailbox called 'Archive'.
Is there anyway to change the behavior of Mail to select the archive folder and view the contents of my IMAP folder named 'Archive'?
Thanks

Hello VMH!
When either one of us deletes a message, it is automatically deleted from the other's Mail Inbox
That's exactly what IMAP is for: to sync mailboxes on different machines.
We would very much like to find a simple way to make sure whatever messages get downloaded into our Mail Inboxes stay there regardless of what the other person does.
As far as I know, that's not possible with IMAP. Besides, as I indicated above, it contradicts the idea behind IMAP. For info on IMAP and Gmail see this [Help Page|http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75725] (click the link) and for info on deleting IMAP messages in Gmail see [this page|http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78755] (again, click the link).
In your case I would recommend using POP instead of IMAP. But you have to make sure that the messages you download are kept on the server, so that your wife can access them, too. In the following I'll give some instructions on how to accomplish that.
*1) Switch from IMAP to POP in Gmail*
1.1 Log into your Gmail account via mail.google.com, click "Settings" in the upper right corner of the window and select "Forwarding and POP/IMAP". Make sure POP is enabled for "all mail".
1.2 Set the option "When messages are accessed with POP" via the drop-down menu to "Keep Google Mail's copy in the Inbox".
1.3 Disable IMAP access.
*2) Create a new POP mail account in Apple Mail*
*3) Adjust Apple Mail's settings*
In Apple Mail's Preferences > Accounts, select your new POP account and click on the "Advanced" tab. There you have to uncheck the checkbox next to "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message".
(You'll have to repeat steps 2) and 3) on your wife's computer as well.)
Hope that helps to get you started.
Good computing.
floba
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Mail and GMail and Filters?!

i am realizing i don't understand something. i use mail on my laptop, desktop and iphone using IMAP. i have a GMail and many, many other accounts.
in order to retain mail but not have it clog up IMAP, i DOWNLOAD this mail by /moving/ it to the ON MY MAC section of my desktop machine. so this mail shows up in FOLDERS under "ON MY MAC". so my understanding is that this mail is no longer on IMAP and instead it is in Mail basically residing on my hard drive somewhere.
so now i want to /organize/ some of my mail and to /filter/ some incoming mail. so now i am noticing that i have set up some FOLDERS that are listed under the portion of my GMAIL account that shows up UNDER the ON MY MAC area. i mean, it is not /nested/ under this listing but it does show up under this listing along with all my other accounts. under each of these accounts is listed a series of folders which includes in all cases one titled "Mail".
ALSO, i have a series of FOLDERS that i set up under my GMAIL account that are listed down here with the intention of using these to FILTER incoming mail into my GMail account. the reason i did this is that i am not seeing a way to see this
i am wondering a couple of things.
1. am i correct in thinking that the mail that goes into the GMail account is basically a IMAP folder that can be seen on all my devices? and if so, can i set up one of these in ANY of my IMAP accounts simply by creating a folder in this account? if so, is there a good reason to create one of these folders in my GMAIL account as opposed to one of these other accounts? i mean, for some reason at one point i was thinking that it was necessary to create these folders in GMail (or that there was some benefit to doing it this way) but now i am not so sure.
2. if i set up a FILTER in Mac Mail how does this work? i mean, if i set one up on my desktop machine does Mac Mail need to be on for the filter to take effect? i see one listed on my desktop and it is not listed on my laptop so it must be machine specific.
3. if i want to start FILTERING Mail can i do this by just using Rules in Mac on my desktop?
4. anyone out there sent all their Mail to Google and let google handle all of this?
5. do Mail rules/filters have problems?
i don't want to spend a ton more time trying to fix something if it is broke but at the same time i don't want to have my inbox as messy as it looks right now.
THANKS

Q.1 part 1: Gmail isn't really IMAP, but it can act more or less like it. (One way that Gmail isn't really IMAP is that oneGmail message can have multiple tags, which makes it look like it is in multiple IMAP folders. Another is that every Gmail message is in a special All Mail "folder" in addition to any tag "folder(s)."
Q.1 part 2: Yes, you should be able to set up folders in any IMAP account.
Q.1 part 3: One possible reason to use Gmail for this is that Gmail storage quotas are higher than for many other free accounts.
Related point: Another approach is to spread out your folders among several servers, either to expand the total quota or for functional reasons.
Q.2: Yes, the Mail application must be running and fetching mail for its filters to be active. Yes, filters are machine-specific, but they can interact. Whichever machine happens to notice a new message in its inbox first will start trying to match the message to its filters. If another machine then notices the same new message in the inbox before the first machine moves it out, it will also try to match the message to its filters. If two filters on different machines try to move the same message, whether to the same folder or different folders, the results are ill-defined. I have observed one message appearing twice after filtering. This is called a "race condition."
Q.3: Yes, you can start by defining filters on your desktop machine.
Related point: Some mail service providers let you run filters on incoming mail before the mail ever hits your inbox. This would eliminate the possibility of a race condition, since none of your clients would ever see those messages in the inbox. A limitation of this feature is that server-based filters are usually limited to moving mail from that server's inbox to another folder on the same server. Gmail and iCloud offer server filters, as do many but not all IMAP-based mail services.
Q.4: Probably somebody has, but I have not.
Q.5: Other than the possibility of a race condition as described above, Mail filters (called "rules") have limitations in what you can search for and the complexity of the condition allowed. Some server-based filters are capable of more, some are more restricted.

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