Comments on: Configuring Mail.app and iPhone with Google IMAP

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:43:32 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you! Finally a cohesive ARTICLE (and not just blather) on an effective way to clean up and work with IMAP, gmail, mail.app and the iphone. JUST what I was looking for!

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:39:27 +0000

I’m damn glad I found this blog !
Thx for cleaning up my Mail.app and iPhone

By: slowe

slowe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:17:55 +0000

I have noticed the same thing, but I haven’t yet figured out exactly how to remedy that. I’ll post something here when I get it resolved.

By: Sean Hoyt

Sean Hoyt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:09:37 +0000

I found this article specifically because I’ve noticed, and am annoyed by, the fact that reading email on the iphone doesn’t update the read status in mail.app. How the heck to we get that to work?

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:20 +0000

Anyone see the issue where mail read on the iPhone never updates to read status for other clients? I’m using gmail site and Entourage (12.5) and message always show as unread when the iPhone shows them as read.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:38:16 +0000

Thx for the tip regarding how to remap folders in Mail.app, I’ve been dying to have that for a long time, but never looked in the Mailbox menu. It’s really great with my German GMX account aswell, because it uses German folder names which of course mismatch the default neglish names used by Mail.app.

By: slowe

slowe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:41:43 +0000

Josh,

Certainly if you need to maintain/use the other labels, then leave them checked in the settings. Also, you may find that you can’t use the “[Gmail]” Inbox path prefix, as I believe that messes around with custom labels. If you want to use custom labels and also take advantage of hiding some labels, I think you need to re-create them as “[Gmail]/Label” instead. I could be wrong, though…

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:42:33 +0000

Ah yes, I had forgotten how “All Mail” works. However, I utilize a lot of rules within Gmail to send messages to various labels, so I don’t know if I can get away with turning off all the labels.

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:36:12 +0000

I forgot to mention to set the path prefix to “[Gmail]” on the iPhone as well; good catch!

As for the deleted messages, couldn’t you just set (both on the Mac and on the iPhone) to never delete messages in Trash? This would accomplish the same thing. Further, I’ve read lots of references to not having IMAP clients try to delete out of “All Mail” because it will cause errors. I’ll have to keep experimenting with this.

Thanks, Stephen!

By: Stephen Foskett

Stephen Foskett — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:40:22 +0000

On second thought… There is kind of a problem here. iPhone delete (in 2.0+) moves mail to Trash, where it will be permanently deleted after 30 days. This is kind of anti-gmail! To get around this, you also need to enable [Gmail]/All Mail in the Labels settings and then you need to set the iPhone to delete to All Mail on the phone. I’ll document this on my blog soon!