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A better Gmail IMAP to Mail.app sync
Authored by: ScottNYC on Jan 15, '10 02:57:17PM

Im having related issues does anyone have answers to any of these question?

Question 1:

how do you make messages sent to trash in apple mail, go to trash in gmail and not go to "all mail"?

Question 2:

I followed the instructions mentioned in a goole help article titled "recommended IMAP client settings" found here http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78892#
after I changed the settings to that of the article, these labels appeared:

what are these labels? why were they created?
-deleted messages
-drafts
-sent messages

pic can be seen here, last 3 folders : http://www.flickr.com/photos/39468387@N05/4277558196/

Why are there now 3 sent message sections,
2 draft message sections,
a trash and deleted section in apple mail client? How do they relate to each other?

Question3:

After these settings were changed, Some mail goes straight to trash, skipping the inbox, why is that happening, which setting changed that? (I have 1 filter configured to send all spam right to trash if that helps). Before I changed the settings to match the article, messages marked spam still went to inbox, now they don't.


Question 4:

can someone explain the settings in mail>preferences>accounts>mailbox behaviors ? pic can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39468387@N05/4277558174/

-store draft messages on the server
-store sent messages on the server
-store junk messages on the server
-move deleted messages to the trash mailbox


how do these affect the communication between apple mail and gmail? (configured using IMAP)

Answers to any of these questions would be greatly appreciated. I've been struggling to get a hold on my gmail account for months, but trying to stay organized is becoming difficult when messages are being placed in unknown areas/labels/folders and when Im unaware of how apple mail and gmail work in conjunction. Im trying to understand how to make apple mail and gmail behave the way I want them too. Thanks!



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A better Gmail IMAP to Mail.app sync
Authored by: melodrama on Jan 16, '10 01:39:51AM

See this article for a full explanation of how gmail and Mail.app interact:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10253



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