Not thrilled wit Gmail IMAP setup

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Not thrilled wit Gmail IMAP setup

So thats to some sound advice from V.K. I reconfigured my gmail accounts as IMAPs instead of POPs. I am excited that I get all my mail now, however I am not stoked about how new mail shows up in both my normal mailboxes as well as the server mailboxes down lower in the list. The think that I do not like is that I have to open up the new email in both places in order for it to show that email is read and take off the new email tallies.

Is there a way to adjust this to only list emails as new in one place or only have to open the mail once to mark it as read?

iMac 2.4, Macbook 2.4, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 9, 2008 9:42 PM

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Answer 1

floba

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Sep 9, 2008 11:38 PM in response to brilehnhof

In short: try the option to "Use this mailbox for..." in the Mailbox menu.

Despite what [Google recommends|http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&topic=1281 4], I found the following settings to work best for me. In the sidebar, navigate to the subfolders Trash/Sent/Drafts/Junk of "Google Mail" (the one with the white folder icon instead of a blue one) in turn and go to "Mailbox" menu > "Use this mailbox for..." > Trash/Sent/Drafts/Junk respectively. Afterwards these folders show up as subfolders to the main Trash/Sent/Drafts/Junk folders in the sidebar (and at the same time disappear from the GMail section). (Some of the checkboxes in Mail's Preferences > Accounts > GoogleMail > Behavior will get checked by that, too.)

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brilehnhof Author

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Sep 10, 2008 3:11 PM in response to floba

I changed the "use this mailbox as" option and now the unread message is just in a different spot, so I still have to open it twice. Did I do something wrong?

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Sep 10, 2008 3:28 PM in response to brilehnhof

For me, the messages in All Mail become Read in a short time -- either if I merely open All Mail, or the next time Mail communicates with the server. WIth IMAP accounts, the marking of a message as Read is controlled on the server, and work must get back to the server that it has been read in the Inbox.

Ernie

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