All Mail is just that...all mail in your account. Gmail uses labels for everything else, so the Inbox "folder" is just a label and moving it out of there into All mail just removes the label, it doesn't delete the copy since there is no copy. Sent mail is the same way, there is a "Sent Mail" label that gets applied to all your sent messages. Without the All Mail folder, you won't have any messages since that's where the email truly resides. The Inbox and Sent Messages are just labels that make it easier for you to manage messages.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Google Adds IMAP Access For GMail
- Thread starter FunkyJunk
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
on the gmail website yes but mail dosent deal with labels right it deals with folders?
when using IMAP, mail maps Gmail's labels to "folders". The actions you take (moving, copying) in Mail are the equivalent of changing and removing labels, that's how it syncs whatever changes you make in Mail with the website version.
Still waiting for my IMAP to be activated. Figures. If I had no use for IMAP, my account probably would have been one of the first to be activated.
What's taking so long anyway? Why can't they just turn all accounts on at the same time?
What's taking so long anyway? Why can't they just turn all accounts on at the same time?
folders and deletion
I have been a little frustrated, like some other posters, in figuring out exactly how gmail responds to certain mail actions, especially deletion. This article pretty much clears everything up. I know it's focused on Thunderbird, but most of it is applicable to any modern mail client.
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/turn-thunderbird-into-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php
Most important for me to find out was that the "delete" action only removes all label tags. In order to actually delete a message you need to first move it to the trash folder.
I have been a little frustrated, like some other posters, in figuring out exactly how gmail responds to certain mail actions, especially deletion. This article pretty much clears everything up. I know it's focused on Thunderbird, but most of it is applicable to any modern mail client.
http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/turn-thunderbird-into-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php
Most important for me to find out was that the "delete" action only removes all label tags. In order to actually delete a message you need to first move it to the trash folder.
haha i feel the same way. I've been checking like 4 times a day to see if they activated it for me yet. I need it for apple mail and my iphone; my gmail account on my browser is loaded but neither of the other 2 are.
I noticed that after I enabled IMAP from my mac, when I looked at gmail options a day later from my iphone it didn't show the IMAP option, but then when checked from my mac it was there again.
Is there any way to auto-synchronize the All Mail folder under Gmail?
I can send and receive, and I have all 27500+ headers in my all mail folder, but new mail doesn't show up in there unless I manually synchronize.
I can send and receive, and I have all 27500+ headers in my all mail folder, but new mail doesn't show up in there unless I manually synchronize.
Seriously...what is their roll-out plan? My primary account (which I've had since the early days of invites) does not have IMAP but two of my secondary accounts, which are relatively new have it available? I'm normally very patient, but this is driving me nuts.
Got mine yesterday, works amazingly with the new mail and the iphone. Four gb of space and imap makes me happy.
Hi all,
I for one have been waiting for IMAP to come to gmail. However, I am having second thoughts to make the change now it has become available (not yet for me, but I guess soon). My understanding of the benefit of IMAP is that is syncs your mail in both your mail.app in iphone or mac to the one in gmail. However, this doesn't allow me to back up large amounts of mail on the gmail server if I delete them off my mac to save space. Right now, whatever I read from my mail.app goes into the archive folder in gmail which seems to serve me just fine. If I use IMAP (which I am seriously considering cos of the syncing),is there another way I can still back up my email in gmail server even after I delete them from my mail.app? hmmm... decisions, decisions... advice anyone?apple:
Why not just keep all your mail on your laptop, too? Mail hardly takes up any space at all. I have literally 100s of thousands of emails in my mail.app. I finally decided to start deleting things, figuring that if something hasn't been dealt with in > 6 months, it isn't going to be...
Not a solution to your dilemma, I realize. How about this? Archive your mail in Mail.app. Burn the mbox file to a DVD. Then delete the Mail from mail.app. Alternatively, you can archive messages via the GMail web interface.
Edit: Better yet, just use the new "Archive Mailbox" option under the Mailbox menu of Mail.app.
Composing in Mail means many messages in Gmail?
I'm seeing a weird problem - when I compose a new email using Mail.app, it seems as though the intermediate saves it does (every 5 or 6 words it seems to be saving the message, like a draft or something) ends up in Gmail as another note. So in sending one email in Mail.app shows up as 7 or 8 or more individual messages on the web Gmail, each one with a few more words than the last.
Anyone seeing this behavior?
I'm seeing a weird problem - when I compose a new email using Mail.app, it seems as though the intermediate saves it does (every 5 or 6 words it seems to be saving the message, like a draft or something) ends up in Gmail as another note. So in sending one email in Mail.app shows up as 7 or 8 or more individual messages on the web Gmail, each one with a few more words than the last.
Anyone seeing this behavior?
Really weird this. Mine was set as POP for like 3 years now and the other day I just changed the server details to IMAP and it worked great as IMAP should. Then this morning no mail would work and in GMAIL I still don't have the IMAP account.
Weird how it worked yesterday but not today.
Weird how it worked yesterday but not today.