Mail only storing emails in Mail and deleting from Gmail and Iphone
Ok so i have a gmail account. I set up Mail on my macbook. I also have that Gmail account on my IPhone. When I open Mail it retrieves my mail and thats great. but when i open my email on my IPhone, the messages are not there. So if i check my email on my computer, it deletes it from the server i guess? Because even when i go to GMAIL.COM there are no emails since i checked my email on my Mail account. Please help because my work schedule gets emailed and i need to be able to see all my emails on my IPhone, MacBook, and Public Computers. Thanks
I'm guessing that you are using GMail as a POP server. You need to switch to IMAP. On the GMail end, go to Settings, then Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable IMAP. Next, you will (unfortunately) have to re-create the account in Mail, since you previously set it up as POP. If you have messages stored in the In box, Trash or Sent mailboxes associated with that account in Mail and don't want to lose them, create new "On My Mac" mailboxes (Mailbox -> New Mailbox, set location to "On My Mac") and move the messages there. Then delete the account and create a new IMAP account. Follow the directions at the link below to set up the account:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75726
Good luck!
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BACKGROUND
I only have 60GB of space on my MacBook Air. Currently, three long-standing IMAP accounts are taking up over 7GB of it!
I have seen several related discussions about this kind of problem, but they all seem to have been solved or glossed over with setting up the IMAP interaction so that messages are deleted from the server in addition to the device or with a "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" fix that doesn't work for me. I like being able to save all of my email history on servers (I'm often surprised by how many years back I have to search to find a piece of information I need), but I can no longer stand losing so much of my very limited local space to really old mail.
PROBLEM
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Under my Gmail Inbox in Mail, I have deleted every message from before 2013. The mail from 2013 is all that I want stored on my MacBook Air.
Ultimately, I think this has something to do with the Archive (seen in the sidebar above, as well). Even when I've deleted everything from before 2013 in my Inbox, AND emptied the entire contents of Trash manually, the Archive still contains all of the mail from the server (yes, this account was started in 2011, but I have others that go back much further).
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In case my Gmail server settings are useful to consider, here they are:
Final Notes
• There's a lot that I don't know about exactly how IMAP communication occurs between a device and a server. For my sake and the sake of anyone else who needs this kind of help, please clarify terms like "flags" and "archive" (since Gmail and Mail both use the term and I don't know think they mean exactly the same thing) if/when you use them.
• If anyone does think that there's some sort of "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" solution to this, you should know that no matter what I have selected in Mail's sidebar (at no matter what level of indentation), the options available under that menu item are always grayed-out.
• I want to keep using Mail. There's a lot that I like about it and I don't want to switch to Thunderbird or something else (remember, I need to save as much local space as I can).
• I just upgraded to 10.9.0 Mavericks, but this problem has existed for me and behaved essentially just like this as long as I can remember. In fact, I think I recall the problem still existing before there was an Archive in the sidebar at all.UPDATE
I still have the problem, but when I checked on this post to see if anyone had commented and I simply hadn't received an e-mail, I noticed that all but the last of the images I included have stopped displaying (I had friends check, too). Most of them were just visual examples of what I was explaining in hopes of giving context and all available info that I may not have personally viewed as relevant, but the first one, about my account's Mailbox Behaviors settings sure is important. These are the settings I have:
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• Store junk messages on the server — Check
• Delete junk messages — One week old
• Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox — Grayed-out and Check
• Store deleted messages on the server — Grayed-out and Check
• Permanently erase deleted messages when — Quitting Mail
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