Mail.app and Gmail IMAP

[Emanuele]

HI All,

I have been using Mail.app on my Macbook Pro, Macbook and iMac, to sync mail from different Gmail accounts....

Now: let's say I am working on my iMac and delete a bunch of messages, and write new ones... and my macbook pro has not been used for a few days....
...well, when I turn on my macbook pro and open mail.app, then all of the messages that I have been receiving and deleting....all get downloaded again and are seen as not read!

Every single time I start Mail.app I have to wait for 15 minutes for all the messages to download again .etc...

Of course, now when I go back to my iMac, all those messages show up again in the mailbox! 🙁

Any help with this please? I'm going insane!

Thank you,
Emanuele

 

[chainprayer]

did you check your gmail imap settings? is it set to "immediately expunge" when you delete from your mac?

 

[Emanuele]

Hi!

yes, it is set to that, I have already checked. For some reason maybe it is not marking the messages as deleted, when moved to the trash?

 

[chainprayer]

i know that if i delete a bunch of messages at once i get the little working pinwheel by my gmail account. if i close before thats done my deletions aren't changed. are you deleting a lot of messages then closing right away?

i solved that one by always using + W instead of + Q.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Take a look in both Mail's and Gmail's preferences.

Try setting the settings to delete messages from Gmail's server after retrieval.

 

[miles01110]

Here:

 

[dorqiekat]

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