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Quicker way to deleate email on Gmail
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The swipe method mentioned above is great for 1 or 2 e-mails.
If you need to erase more than that, use the 'edit' button at the top of the e-mail list and you can select multiple messages and erase them all at once.
If you need to erase more than that, use the 'edit' button at the top of the e-mail list and you can select multiple messages and erase them all at once.
Thanks. Great help. When I do both of the actions I get a red button that says archive, not delete. Archive use to have a different purpose than delete. I am I reading too much into the name of the red button...Is archiving or deleting?
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You can set up your gmail as a exchange account. It will then delete the email instead of archiving it.
Set up gmail as exchange go throughout he process and use m.google.com as the server. Leave the domain blank. This will also enable push for you.
You can use the google app also. This can be handy when you want to mark many messages as read.
Set up gmail as exchange go throughout he process and use m.google.com as the server. Leave the domain blank. This will also enable push for you.
You can use the google app also. This can be handy when you want to mark many messages as read.
just go to settings > Mail, Contacs, Calenders > Under accounts click Gmail> Then turn off Archive Messages.
Neither of those is the whole story. (They're both somewhat true, but there's more to it than that.) It depends on how you set it up. I've always used IMAP and I used to have 'Archice' and now I have it as 'Delete.' It's just a configuration change:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/tip-archive-mail-on-your-iphone.html
Correct. If you set up your gmail.com account on the phone thru the "Gmail" icon in the mail setup preferences, swiping will put the email in the Archive folder. If you (manually) set up as an Exchange account, the swipe action will be "Delete."
Each set up has it's advantages and disadvantages. You can read more about them on google.com.
That did it. Red box now says delete and in the main gmail account message is in the trash...Thanks
This should be clarified, as there's subtleties here that people, myself including, did not appreciate. I went through both methods today - exchange and IMAP icon - to make sure it is working the way I want it to.
There 1 universal truth, if you MUST have real deleting (I did), then you're only option is IMAP *and* make sure as a poster above suggested, go into the account settings after setup and turn off archive.
The exchange option treats deletes as archives, and there is no way as of yet to change this setting.
The IMAP option, by default, also treats deletes as archives but has a toggle to turn archiving off.
nope
i am set up as an exchange, and swipe most certainly archives.
easiest way to delete is to fire up safari and log in to gmail. then you can use checkboxes and actually delete.
Simply read what google has to say on archiving vs deleting instead of speculating here.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86614
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86614
