Comments on: Apple Mail 3: Use GMail’s Trash Folder

By: Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:53 +0000

Rodrigo: thanks for your comment!

I am pretty sure I used the Ctrl-click option-menu at the time I wrote that blog post (back in 2007), but Apple might have moved that option to the regular menu in the meantime. I’ll update the article.

By: Rodrigo Balassa

Rodrigo Balassa — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:43:23 +0000

Hi,

This is a great article, the only thing is that the right click button does not work, but it does appear on the Mailbox menu option.

Thanks.-

By: /Users/krames » Mail.app and Gmail IMAP

/Users/krames » Mail.app and Gmail IMAP — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:01:27 +0000

[…] I usually find myself wanting to delete rather than archive. One of the comment’s in this post details how to fix the issue. Basically you want […]

By: Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:01:31 +0000

Victor: I know that Google tells you to set up your IMAP account in a different way — otherwise there would have been no need for me to write this blog post.

What I wanted to accomplish with my solution: when I delete a message from Mail.app, I want it to be gone. Hey, that’s what “delete” means, right? Google’s implementation of the “delete” command is rather… “archive and store forever”…

I don’t really care if I have more than 7 GB of storage space on Google Mail, I just don’t want to keep mails that I’m never going to look at again.

By: Victor Lee

Victor Lee — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:20:02 +0000

are you sure these settings are right though? According to Google’s Gmail settings for Apple Mail 3, http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# , settings are incorrect!

By: Apple Mail, Google IMAP and deleting messages | keyongtech

Apple Mail, Google IMAP and deleting messages | keyongtech — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:48:53 +0000

[…] but I like Mail App. You can try to set up Mail.app to move deleted items to GMail’s trash folder: http://blog.jeanpierre.de/2007/11/05/apple-mail-3-use-gmails-trash-folder/ Let me know if it works for you. HTH, […]

By: drumkeyjw

drumkeyjw — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:41:50 +0000

Thanks for the great info! It totally helped me!!!

-John

By: Improving your GMail IMAP experience | $ cat /dev/brain > /dev/blog

Improving your GMail IMAP experience | $ cat /dev/brain > /dev/blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:58 +0000

[…] GMail (or “Google Mail” for the rest of us outside the U.S.) has introduced IMAP access to their users’ mailboxes quite a while ago. Fred has written about using your GMail IMAP account with popular mail clients such as Apple’s Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird, I was giving my two cents on the GMail Trash folder. […]

By: Rob Record

Rob Record — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:59 +0000

LarsR,

All you need to do is to NOT set up the ‘move to trash’ preference in Apple Mail.

This is because there is /always/ a copy of your message in the ‘All Mail’ folder – Gmail sets this up for you.

So anytime you delete a message in Apple Mail, a copy will remain in the All Mail folder.

By: Jean Pierre

Jean Pierre — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:07:02 +0000

Sorry Lars, I am also looking for an easy way to send archived mails to the corresponding IMAP folder (GMail label). I haven’t tried it but perhaps a macro, Automator action, or AppleScript would do the job.