iOS4 Email Question

[wayland1985]

In iOS 4, I have a GMAIL and MobileMe account set up (trial mobile me account).

In the Gmail inbox, when you swipe left to right across a message, a button appears saying "ARCHIVE".

Do the same in the MobileMe account, and it says "DELETE"... Why is this?

 

[saccento]

does the "mail app" change to gmail? I saw a picture of it and wasn't sure if it changes

 

[wayland1985]

does the "mail app" change to gmail? I saw a picture of it and wasn't sure if it changes

I'm not sure I follow what you mean?

The question I have seems to treat GMAIL differently. Although my GMAIL APPs account doesn't retain this behavior...

 

[Small White Car]

G-Mail doesn't have a 'delete' function by default. It just moves things from the in-box to the archive folder.

Did you set up your G-Mail on your phone by picking the "G-Mail" option? Don't do it that way. (Yeah, crazy, I know.)

Set it up by picking "other" and following these directions:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702

If you do it that way I think you'll get the 'delete' option exactly like you do with Mobile Me.

 

[jfrancis04]

In iOS 4, I have a GMAIL and MobileMe account set up (trial mobile me account).

In the Gmail inbox, when you swipe left to right across a message, a button appears saying "ARCHIVE".

Do the same in the MobileMe account, and it says "DELETE"... Why is this?

Same exact problem here. Let me know if you figure it out.

 

[wayland1985]

G-Mail doesn't have a 'delete' function by default. It just moves things from the in-box to the archive folder.

Did you set up your G-Mail on your phone by picking the "G-Mail" option? Don't do it that way. (Yeah, crazy, I know.)

Set it up by picking "other" and following these directions:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702

If you do it that way I think you'll get the 'delete' option exactly like you do with Mobile Me.

That makes sense. I don't mind the archive button. In fact it makes me think twice about signing up with MobileMe when I'm done.


I tend to delete messages to keep my inbox clean, but I tend to go back and use them again...

I think MobileMe kills messages off after 2 months?




Strange the Mail.app doesn't recognize the Google Apps account as a gmail account.

 

[saccento]

I'm not sure I follow what you mean?

The question I have seems to treat GMAIL differently. Although my GMAIL APPs account doesn't retain this behavior...

sorry, I was using your thread since it's about mail, to ask a question lol.

i mean't does the mail icon change to a gmail icon? look at this link
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-apps-the-best-of-whats-new-and-updated/

 

[Small White Car]

I tend to delete messages to keep my inbox clean, but I tend to go back and use them again...

Yeah, you need to have some kind of system. I leave my computer running at home with rule in the Mail program. EVERYTHING that comes in gets a copy saved on the hard drive.

So I'm pretty free with the 'delete' button in my In-Box. I always know I can get it later at home if I really screw something up.

 

[LeeTom]

does the mail icon change to a gmail icon?

That is GMail's Safari/iOS icon. If you go to your gmail and add a bookmark of it to the home screen, that's the icon that shows. The Apple Mail icon does not change based on your email provider.

I think MobileMe kills messages off after 2 months?

WRONG. MobileMe does not kill mail, except for messages in the Trash or Spam folders - the same as GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and every other email provider.

 

[mrtune]

If you are using gmail through imap, just go into your mail settings and you can change it to delete instead of archiving. By default it archives. Nice little option they added.

 

[wayland1985]

That is GMail's Safari/iOS icon. If you go to your gmail and add a bookmark of it to the home screen, that's the icon that shows. The Apple Mail icon does not change based on your email provider.




WRONG. MobileMe does not kill mail, except for messages in the Trash or Spam folders - the same as GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and every other email provider.

Sorry. Poor wording on my part. That's what I meant.

I'm just used to messages on Gmail being removed from the inbox when you hit "DELETE", and being retained in All-Mail.


Small White Car, I'll be sending a PM about MobileMe.


Thanks again guys for the help!

 

[mrtune]

Sorry. Poor wording on my part. That's what I meant.

I'm just used to messages on Gmail being removed from the inbox when you hit "DELETE", and being retained in All-Mail.


Small White Car, I'll be sending a PM about MobileMe.


Thanks again guys for the help!

Gmail is the only email provider that I know of that even has archiving capabilities. If that's what you want, then instead of deleting stuff, just create a folder called archive and move stuff there.