29 Oct
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.
Today, I learned about a new feature from Google Labs (it’s beta, just in case…): you are now able to fine-tune how deleted mails are handled. So far, all deleted mail stayed in the “All mails” folder. Forever. If you really wanted to delete that crappy newsletter from your favourite airline, you had to log in to the Google Mail website, find that particular mail (you still remembered that you planned to delete that mail when you actually accessed GMail over the web, didn’t you?) and trash it there.
With Advanced IMAP Controls in GMail, you will now be able to either delete your a mail if it is not visible in any view or (that’s the feature I was really looking for) you can even delete an e-mail right away. Click and gone. Nice. That’s how it’s meant to be.
29 Jul
Where do I get an updated certificate to connect to smtp.gmail.com?
19 Jun
Due to legal skirmish, Google’s mail service (called “GMail”in the U.S. and “Google Mail”, e.g., in Germany and the U.K.) cannot be accessed [from German ISPs] by gmail.com anymore. Instead of the GMail UI, you see that error screen shown above. Pointing your browser to mail.google.com works fine, though.
Unfortunately I’m so used to type “gmail.com” — luckily, in Firefox 3 you just need to type “gmail” into the URL input field and then choose the correct entry from the drop-down menu (if you ever have visited mail.google.com before).
05 Nov
So, you just upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard and all its shiny new features including Mail (version 3). And you finally managed to integrate your GMail account using IMAP (woot!) into Mail. But what bothers you is the fact that when you delete mails, they still show up in the All Mails folder on the GMail web interface because they’re actually only marked as read and archived, not deleted.
Once you set up your GMail IMAP account correctly, make sure to check the “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox” and the “Store deleted messages on the server” checkboxes. If you want to, you may also set an expiration date for deleted mails but as GMail deletes messages in the Trash folder after 30 days, I left this option unchanged. After you close this window, navigate to your GMail mailbox in the left window pane of Mail.app.
You’ll find all your regular IMAP folders (All Mail, Sent, etc.) there as well as a list of the tags (a.k.a. labels) you’re currently using. You wonder why Trash doesn’t show up in my list? Well, I already set it up correctly, so the folder disappears from this list and appears aside of all other Trash folders.
You just have to perform a control-click (yes, you may also use your right mouse button) on the Trash folder and select “Use this folder for deleted messages” from the pop-up window. That’s it! From now on, your deleted messages are moved to GMail’s Trash folder and automagically cleaned up by Gmail.
16 Nov
Heute habe ich beim Einloggen auf GMail in der rechten oberen Ecke einen nicht zu übersehenden Link mit dem reißereischen Titel “New Features!” entdeckt 
Siehe da, auch mein GMail-Account wurde jetzt für POP3 aktiviert (das passiert sukzessive mit allen GMail-Accounts), so dass ich meine Mails jetzt auch ohne den POP3 Wrapper abholen kann.
Sehr schön
(Wobei ich den Fehler gemacht habe, anzugeben, dass beim nächsten POP3-Aufruf alle Nachrichten synchronisiert werden sollen… Da waren auch diverse Mailinglisten dabei. Na wenigstens weiß ich jetzt, dass das KMail-Icon im “Systembereich der Kontrollleiste” auch eine vierstellige Anzahl ungelesener Mails verträgt, ohne, dass es blöd aussieht (vielleicht ein bisschen klein, aber man ist ja nicht so wählerisch).
