Mail, Gmail, POP/Imap

Am on leopard, with leopard mail. When I set up an account, it doesnt have the old option of POP or IMAP, it assumes. With GMAIL setup, it assumes POP, yet Gmail also supports Imap now.
With POP it works fine, I tried to manually change the config to imap and get error on new imap port 993.
So, basic question is how do I set up gmail to work properly with imap on leopard mail client? Either with direct imap setup or via manual to make it work.
Thx,

After setting up IMAP email following Google's instructions, continue with these extra tweaks: http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862
This will properly set up your Drafts, Deleted Items, and Sent mail.
I was getting items in my Inbox just fine. I believe you have to set Root Folder Path to \[Gmail\] with the brackets around it. This option is available by right-clicking your account and select Properties. Scroll to the IMAP tab to find Root Folder Path.
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After setting up IMAP email following Google's instructions, continue with these extra tweaks: http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862
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delcake wrote:
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For Gmail, you first need to enable POP access on the Gmail server.
For Earthlink, follow these instructions.
The server settings are usually on the ISP's site, if you search their support for "POP", "SERVER", "EMAIL" etc, you should be able to find it. There are a lot of servers, especially with the major ISPs that may run a different server for every geographic region they serve.- As an example, those Earthlink instructions are dependent on your email address.
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I know I can set up another IMAP account in mail and disable my current POP account. But many people have then said to drag my "On My Mac" folders/mailboxes that I've created over the years to the new IMAP mailbox....my concern is that because gmail's server has all the messages, I will actually be duplicating ALL my mail on both the server and my mac.
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Hey,
I have no unread messages in my inbox and a total of 70 emails. When I sync it up with my iPhone, they all come back as new and it says I have 800 unread emails! What's going on? When I sync with Outlook it's fine. I also set it to "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on" on the GMAIL settings. Does anyone know what's going on?

It's really quite simple:
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Since you do not need the All Mail folder when in Mail, you can select via browser and Gmail setting for POP & IMAP to exclude it entirely.
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Nick,
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You probably still have the other devices set up as IMAP accounts.
In a POP account, only the INBOX interacts with the server. Those settings in POP and IMAP for INBOX are in the Accounts/Advanced Tab. IMAP has no server settings because they are naturally stored on the server and the action you do (such as delete) tells the server what to do.
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Only the INBOX in a POP account downloads from the server. The rest do not, which is why you don't see the sent messages from the other devices. Just as sent message from a POP account won't show up on the other devices, just on the device sent from.
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