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Question using Gmail on iphone...

Problem solved.

hi. the way to do this is to set a filter in your gmail for your email address and then set it to delete the email. after that you wont get sent messages.

i just figured this out with the aid of someone else and it took over an hour and we tried all the different configurations.
 
Is the aol/imap solution make the sent mail in gmail show up? ie, when I send a message from my iphone I could then go into my gmail account and it would be in the sent email folder?
 
Finally got it working....

I have had many issues like others here in the forum as well. Basicly I always got sent items in my inbox on the iphone, and when I turned off recent mode I got NO emails at all.

I poked around, and ended up turning OFF pop access in gmail. The iphone then tried to sync and said I needed to turn it back on. I then turned it back on, and now with recent mode turned off, everything is working like a champ.

FOr some reason, turning off and on pop seemed to get me moving again correctly.

I now get all new emails, sent emails don't show on the iphone inbox, all threads are in tact via the gmail web interface and all looks good.
 
For the record I tried what was written below. I tried the filter, which worked fine on gmail from my computer but still allowed the e-mail to make it to the iphone. I then went to the gmail account on the iphone and turned recent messages off under advanced settings. However, under the basic settings it still says "show: 25 recent messages". That is the lowest number even with recent turned off under advanced settings.

I do not mind if I read an e-mail on my iPhone that it'll not show as unread on my computer. That is basically the point anyway. I also understand that if an e-mail is retrieved on my iphone I may not see it in my gmail account. Is that correct?


chriswheat said:
It's taken me some time but I've got it figured out:

By default, GMail on the iPhone is enabled in 'recent mode' where it pulls down your 25 (or 50 or whatever) most recent emails. In this mode it is not actually acting as a true POP3 email client. When the messages download, they are not being cleared out of your inbox.

That being said, and establishing that it's not operating as the standard mail.app would on a Mac, it operates almost as if you were just using GMail's web interface as far as sending mail is concerned.

To understand, go to GMails web interface, send a message to someone. Then look at Mail.app on your Mac. The next time it retrieves mail, it will receive the message you sent. This is due to the way that GMail's archive folder is set up. Since messages are essentially in one giant folder, Mail pulls all messages that have not been previously downloaded.

So when you access it on your iPhone, you are essentially looking at the 25 (or whatever) most recent emails, which includes emails you sent.

You can disable recent mode on the iPhone by going to the advanced mail settings. This will cause the iPhone to operate more like Mail.app, pulling messages off the server using POP3. Do note however, that if a message is downloaded to your iPhone, it will not be available to be downloaded later to your Mail.app.
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MBHockey said:
you can, but the down side is that any mail fetched by any other client (marked as read on the server) will not get downloaded to your iPhone.

Just set up a filter to send messages FROM: yourgmailaddress@gmail.com to get archived (skip in box) and you're all set.
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