Incredibly strange goings on with Apple Mail / Gmail account / IMAP & Apple Mail folders kinda doing whatever they want.
I've had my Gmail account for a long time - it's enabled for IMAP and all the system folders are checked to show on Gmail and to show on IMAP.
Got a new Retina iMac yesterday and went thru the Apple Mail setup, which really just consisted of my name, email address and password. Then in preferences, followed the same steps of checking and unchecking, same as I've done on all previous OS X versions.
I have junk mail saved to server checked, and all others unchecked (as per Gmail's advice).
What this usually looks like in Apple Mail:
Mailboxes
Inbox
Drafts
Sent
Gmail
Important
Starred
Drafts
Sent
All Mail
Spam
Trash
However, I am not seeing the above. I am seeing the mailboxes on my Mac fluctuate each time I open Apple Mail. It always shows Inbox, Drafts and Sent. However, sometimes it adds All Mail and Important, which it shouldn't.
And the IMAP folders from Gmail also fluctuate to sometimes include Starred, but not always. And a few of the others, like Important and Sent are missing always. And they are in reverse order, ascending rather than descending. It won't allow me to drag and drop to the order I want - I get an error message.
I've tried posting to Apple Community and Gmail Community, as well - but have not received anything that works. The only good thing is that the Apple Mail does send out mail, so it works. But never had this problem before.
Any suggestions or ideas?
I've had my Gmail account for a long time - it's enabled for IMAP and all the system folders are checked to show on Gmail and to show on IMAP.
Got a new Retina iMac yesterday and went thru the Apple Mail setup, which really just consisted of my name, email address and password. Then in preferences, followed the same steps of checking and unchecking, same as I've done on all previous OS X versions.
I have junk mail saved to server checked, and all others unchecked (as per Gmail's advice).
What this usually looks like in Apple Mail:
Mailboxes
Inbox
Drafts
Sent
Gmail
Important
Starred
Drafts
Sent
All Mail
Spam
Trash
However, I am not seeing the above. I am seeing the mailboxes on my Mac fluctuate each time I open Apple Mail. It always shows Inbox, Drafts and Sent. However, sometimes it adds All Mail and Important, which it shouldn't.
And the IMAP folders from Gmail also fluctuate to sometimes include Starred, but not always. And a few of the others, like Important and Sent are missing always. And they are in reverse order, ascending rather than descending. It won't allow me to drag and drop to the order I want - I get an error message.
I've tried posting to Apple Community and Gmail Community, as well - but have not received anything that works. The only good thing is that the Apple Mail does send out mail, so it works. But never had this problem before.
Any suggestions or ideas?