I recently switched my primary email service to Gmail (IMAP), and I am having a hard time figuring out how to go about adapting to using the unique Gmail Filters/Labels features...specifically in regards to how I should configure my email client (Entourage 2008) down retrieve messages from the server??
This was as simple as could be with my previous IMAP email provider because they didn't use 'labels', instead they simply used standard 'folders', where a single email could only exist in one place...ever (other than search folders)...
With Gmail, I can theoretically have half a dozen labels applied to thousands of email throughout my messages stored throughout the server, and my first take on this situation is that I might wind up with an Entourage database file that's many times larger than it had previous been and will most likely take longer in sending and receiving emails, due to the fact that Entourage will download the same message multiple times to place a copy into each 'folder/label' (i.e. Entourage creates a folder structure to mimic Gmail's labels structure)?
Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this? What about going into Entourage and configuring my Schedules to download 'headers only' instead of 'all messages' (as depicted here):
...or is there something I am supposed to configure accordingly in the IMAP account settings, as depicted here:
Another question I have in regards to dealing with labels properly...how can I go about adding/removing labels from emails within entourage? If a message exists in both my 'Business' folder (Gmail label=Business) and also in my 'Personal' folder (Gmail label=Personal), would I simply delete the message from one of the folders to remove that specific label from that message? How would I then go about actually deleting a message entirely (i.e. making sure it was deleted from each and every folder in Entourage (and placed in the Trash folder on the Gmail server)?
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if someone wouldn't mind also helping me figure out how to accomplish these tasks via Apple Mail 3.0 Leopard as well, I'd be really grateful!!
Any suggestions (related to the questions above, or other tips I should keep in mind) would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
This was as simple as could be with my previous IMAP email provider because they didn't use 'labels', instead they simply used standard 'folders', where a single email could only exist in one place...ever (other than search folders)...
With Gmail, I can theoretically have half a dozen labels applied to thousands of email throughout my messages stored throughout the server, and my first take on this situation is that I might wind up with an Entourage database file that's many times larger than it had previous been and will most likely take longer in sending and receiving emails, due to the fact that Entourage will download the same message multiple times to place a copy into each 'folder/label' (i.e. Entourage creates a folder structure to mimic Gmail's labels structure)?
Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this? What about going into Entourage and configuring my Schedules to download 'headers only' instead of 'all messages' (as depicted here):
...or is there something I am supposed to configure accordingly in the IMAP account settings, as depicted here:
Another question I have in regards to dealing with labels properly...how can I go about adding/removing labels from emails within entourage? If a message exists in both my 'Business' folder (Gmail label=Business) and also in my 'Personal' folder (Gmail label=Personal), would I simply delete the message from one of the folders to remove that specific label from that message? How would I then go about actually deleting a message entirely (i.e. making sure it was deleted from each and every folder in Entourage (and placed in the Trash folder on the Gmail server)?
If it wouldn't be too much trouble, if someone wouldn't mind also helping me figure out how to accomplish these tasks via Apple Mail 3.0 Leopard as well, I'd be really grateful!!
Any suggestions (related to the questions above, or other tips I should keep in mind) would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!