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Some Experiencing Issues With Gmail on iOS Devices, Google Working on Fix

Have had no IMAP problems with Gmail, but have had regular SMTP problems with Gmail. Have two other IMAP accounts on small mail servers and never had problems with them. Friends have had huge problems with IMAP on Gmail, constantly resyncing to the point of unusability, but I thought that was because they had too many folders and did not cull old messages the way I do.

Most of these problems are on Mail.app on the Mac, not on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. We need to track this or use Gmail less.
 
mex4eric said:
Friends have had huge problems with IMAP on Gmail, constantly resyncing to the point of unusability, but I thought that was because they had too many folders and did not cull old messages the way I do.
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Where does the IMAP spec put a limit on the number of folders or messages per folder?

It sounds like you're restricting yourself to live within the limits of flawed software.

I recently got a message from IT because I had a mail folder with over 400,000 messages.

And the message was simply that the disk space usage on the mail server was approaching my limit - and that I needed to move those messages to a local folder to stay within my quota.

We're in the 64-bit era - the idea of "too many" or "too big" needs to be questioned whenever and wherever it appears. Most of the time it means that the programmers were lazy or incompetent - or that IT is being pig-headed. (And I think that IT is being pig-headed if they worry about a mail folder with a couple of GB of messages.)
 
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I'm surprised it's taken this long to make the news. As with a few others who've posted, it's been happening with my gmail accounts for quite some time now.
 
scaredpoet said:
...Google has tech support? :confused:
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Yes, and they keep regular office hours.

They are available at the Sports Page (North Shoreline Boulevard) between 1:30pm and 1:45pm Pacific Time on the Thursday after a new moon in leap years during months that don't contain the letter 'R'.

The consultation fee is a pitcher of beer; Happy Hour prices do not apply.

Answers may be given in Russian or Mandarin Chinese. (It is Mountain View, of course.)
 
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Varp said:
This problem should not be surprising, because

(A) Google is not staffed by geniuses as people want to believe.

(B) Google has a bunch of spyware that does not-so-nice things and is bound to break with every iOS update.
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I just fell off my chair laughing. Thanks.

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macs4nw said:
Please, we all miss Steve, but life goes on. Enough with the post-count padding already
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No one misses steve as a person, he was just a bank of ideas to most people on this site.
 
G51989 said:
No one misses steve as a person, he was just a bank of ideas to most people on this site.
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Please speak for yourself. I admired SJ for his personality, his way of thinking and seeing things and his life philosophy. I mostly miss him cause such personalities leave a huge void that cannot be covered by anyone else, in the IT world.

With or without SJ, Apple is a bank of ideas. But Steve was a unique - and therefore - irreplaceable personality which is much more than that.
 
The SJ stuff is meaningless anyway. Alive or not he never had control over Google, much less Gmail.
 
This seems inconvenient but it's nothing compared to the Apple Mail problems I had when I updated to Mountain Lion. I ended up having to delete every gmail account I had on the app and re-adding them from the System Preferences pane. It was a "pane" in my butt.;)
 
Mine started failing...

... as soon as I turned on two factor authentication and used an application specific password. No response city on imap on the iPad ever since.

I dare say I'm not a particularly heavy user of gmail. Works fine on my Nexus 7 tablet with it's own application specific password, using the Gmail app on iOS and using the web UI. Only the Apple email client is borked...
 
JTeeth said:
This seems inconvenient but it's nothing compared to the Apple Mail problems I had when I updated to Mountain Lion. I ended up having to delete every gmail account I had on the app and re-adding them from the System Preferences pane. It was a "pane" in my butt.;)
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I never had to do that for my mountain lion upgrade. I don't know what you people are doing to your computers but dayum.
 
Hmmm.....

Honestly, I've been trying to steer people away from doing heavy email via Google recently anyway.

The IMAP bandwidth limits can be a real headache when you're first trying to get someone set up on Gmail, migrating from another email host.

What might normally seem like a generous "daily limit" isn't nearly enough to handle the big mailboxes full of sub-folders that some people have -- especially if you have issues the first time around and have to delete/re-sync their mailbox 2 or 3 times before it's all done.

Google still has a lot of issues with their mail that aren't widely discussed. For example, if you use their email migration tool (a Windows utility) to upload someone's existing Outlook mailbox to Google Apps/Gmail? Certain characters in the names of their folders cause the entire folder to fail to upload (like the "&" character).
 
Google mail problems not only with iOS

I am wondering if this may be something more general? I have very recently had trouble connecting to googles imap server from a MacPro with 10.8. Maybe it has something to do with two-step veryfication?! Who of those that have problems are using googles application specific passwords?

I upgraded an early 2008 MacPro to 10.8 right after Mountain Lion came out. No serious problems with Mail until last week when Apple Mail could not connect to the imap server on several occasions. Reissuing the application specific password appeared to help but only for a few hours. Reissuing the application specific password another time could no longer fix the problem.
 
I have this problem on my MBP using Outlook 2011

I generally have a number of devices all with email configured. I think they either need to remove the limits or increase them.
 
Google Sync

Why are more people not using Google Sync??

I see lots of people talking about sync issues with contact, calendar and mail. Google Sync provides push synchronization of all three! It works flawlessly with Gmail and Google Apps.

You can find the instructions on setting up Google Sync [URL="https://www.google.com/mobile/sync]here[/URL]
 
MacBoy88 said:
Why are more people not using Google Sync??

I see lots of people talking about sync issues with contact, calendar and mail. Google Sync provides push synchronization of all three! It works flawlessly with Gmail and Google Apps.

You can find the instructions on setting up Google Sync [URL="https://www.google.com/mobile/sync]here[/URL]
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Sync for calendar and contacts, yes. But no editable drafts for mail. I also don't need mail notifications immediately.

So IMAP for mail set to manual. I read/respond to mail on my own timetable.
 
Menel said:
Sync for calendar and contacts, yes. But no editable drafts for mail. I also don't need mail notifications immediately.

So IMAP for mail set to manual. I read/respond to mail on my own timetable.
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You can still have drafts, they just do not get uploaded to a server. They stay on the device locally however.
 
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