Comments on: Making Gmail and Apple Mail sing together with IMAP

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:39:37 +0000

Thanks soooo much! I had been looking for this for so long. I was so tired of checking my mail and then checking it again on gmail…….
Great Article! Thanks Again!

By: Nevile

Nevile — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:50:24 +0000

Thanks for the tip Milind (as well as the informative commenters). Gmail is now working perfectly on my Mac and iPhone.

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:38:48 +0000

IMAP is a standard. Yes it’s an old standard and could do with a bit of sprucing up but it is a STANDARD and Google should follow it. All this labels, folders and mapping should not have to happen.

Yes, even if it IS free, they should still follow the standard.

The Labs settings make it OK for power users who even know what Labs is but still, for me this is IMAP fail.

By: Curmudgeon Geographer

Curmudgeon Geographer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:07:06 +0000

Per Google’s support team, in Mail’s Preferences the following are the recommended settings for mailbox behaviors:

UNCHECK “Store sent messages on the server”,
CHECK “Store junk messages on the server”,
UNCHECK “Store deleted messages on the server”,
UNCHECK “Move deleted messages to Trash mailbox”,
CHECK “Store draft messages on server”.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&ctx=sibling#

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:13:41 +0000

Yep, that Labs feature seals the deal. Unfortunately, it’s not available for those using the google apps for their domain.

By: E.Prankfort

E.Prankfort — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:21:19 +0000

There is a google labs feature that will let you turn off the IMAP sharing of the all mail and starred mail folders. Doing this, along with mapping the other four mailboxes to Inbox, Sent, Junk, and Trash, will eliminate the account entry entirely in the sidebar, making it much much cleaner to look at and FINALLY getting rid of the all mail folder in mail.app