Hello all,
My Gmail and Mail.app have been happily IMAPed for a few months now, but I noticed today I accidentally had set a deletion period for my sent messages through my Mail.app preferences. I never delete my sent messages, so I sought to just restore them to my sent folder. I couldn't figure out a way to make this work (restoring deleted messages to "sent" status in Gmail, which would then be reflected in Mail.app, this is my question #1), so I just tried to create a filter for all messages authored by me, then set that folder as my sent folder in Mail.app. This worked, but then I noticed some curious fragments of some of my most recently sent messages. These are like drafts on messages I've sent, but they were not deleted once I sent the message. The most curious thing is that they only appear for messages I've sent in the past month. I have no clue where these things came from, and I am only hoping they do not keep appearing. I just wrote a few test emails to myself, and they did not have the phantom drafts along with them. The messages currently in my Mail.app sent folder do not have these partial drafts, but the folder I created using the filter in Gmail does.
I hope that makes enough sense so I can get some help on this!
My Gmail and Mail.app have been happily IMAPed for a few months now, but I noticed today I accidentally had set a deletion period for my sent messages through my Mail.app preferences. I never delete my sent messages, so I sought to just restore them to my sent folder. I couldn't figure out a way to make this work (restoring deleted messages to "sent" status in Gmail, which would then be reflected in Mail.app, this is my question #1), so I just tried to create a filter for all messages authored by me, then set that folder as my sent folder in Mail.app. This worked, but then I noticed some curious fragments of some of my most recently sent messages. These are like drafts on messages I've sent, but they were not deleted once I sent the message. The most curious thing is that they only appear for messages I've sent in the past month. I have no clue where these things came from, and I am only hoping they do not keep appearing. I just wrote a few test emails to myself, and they did not have the phantom drafts along with them. The messages currently in my Mail.app sent folder do not have these partial drafts, but the folder I created using the filter in Gmail does.
I hope that makes enough sense so I can get some help on this!