Q: Mavericks Mail App and Gmail folders

Howard Brazee wrote:

 

Next time it happens.   It happened two days ago, and it happened a couple of months ago.   It might have been the same icon with a different label. 

Such an icon does not exist, so it's a mystery, take a screenshot the next time and we'll endeavor to find out what it is.

Copy the email to the second Gmail folder. Gmail will label it properly at the website.

imagician's suggestion of the 10,000 limit on IMAP folders solved the problem for me!

FIXED: change preference from Check Mail Automatically to Check Every Minute.

Struggled with Gmail and Mail since initial Mavericks install. Wife's iMac and my MBP didn't bring in some Gmail. Yet my iMac and her MBP worked OK. Then my iMac started to get weird, then my Mom's MBP (running 10.8, by the way!).

Read somewhere, maybe here, that change to the Checking Mail preference fixed the problem. I was skeptical, but it worked!

Hello everyone,

Like a lot of people, I had issues with Mail / Mavericks. Basically, mail transferred (on a first Mac) to a Gmail folder kept showing in my Inbox (on a second Mac)...

Solution: disable Imap for the Important folder in Gmail (useless anyway in Mail ...).

That's not the solution, I have it disabled and it still the same. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't. It is better than it was couple of months ago, but the issue is still here.

virtualAThome wrote:

 

That's not the solution,

There is no "the solution"

Many problems with Gmail, many causes, many different solutions.

Csound1 wrote:

 

There is no "the solution"

 

Many problems with Gmail, many causes, many different solutions.

And therein lay the problem.  There shouldn't be a "many causes, many solutions".  iOS mail "just works" with GMail.  That's how Mavericks mail should be.

And that's why so many of us are so p*ssed.

If Gmail was a real IMAP server, it would just work. Since it is a frankenstein monster of an email system, its not that easy.

Then let Apple know how you feel, we can't do anything.

Barney-15E wrote:

 

If Gmail was a real IMAP server, it would just work. Since it is a frankenstein monster of an email system, its not that easy.

That strawman hardly holds up when the iOS version works fine.

Apple figured out how to do it, they can go find the code that works and replace the code that doesn't.

Csound1 wrote:

 

Then let Apple know how you feel, we can't do anything.

Already done - as you can see that's hardly worked thus far..

As we all do, I find it very strange that Apple would allow such a crucial product to remain so badly broken.

I can't help but wonder, and wish, that they have something up their sleeve that will revolutionize what we do as much as the Mac revolutionized personal computing.

I can't imagine what it might be, but then I couldn't imagine something like the all-in-one, squat, square, beige, marvelous Macintosh either.

ElPapa wrote:

 

Barney-15E wrote:

 

If Gmail was a real IMAP server, it would just work. Since it is a frankenstein monster of an email system, its not that easy.

 

That strawman hardly holds up when the iOS version works fine.

If you did a modicum of research you would find that Gmail's crappy system causes problems with Windows and its mail clients as well, it's random and intermittent just like it is on a Mac.

Add that to Googles intrusive selling of its users data to anyone who wants to buy  and it's a good thing that it works so poorly. With luck some users will take note and get a better email system.

ElPapa wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Then let Apple know how you feel, we can't do anything.

 

Already done - as you can see that's hardly worked thus far..

Use a mail client designed for Gmail then.