Archive & Delete Mail Buttons for Gmail IMAP Account?
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Why do you put "gmail" in the IMAP Path Prefix?
I have everything ticked in the Mailbox Behaviors except Store Sent Mail on Server. Now I have a Deleted Messages folder (which has appeared as a subfolder of Mike's Email, not the Gmail folder where the other 5 subfolders have appeared. The problem is, it doesn't operate any differently. If I delete mail, it goes to All Mail... if I mark something as spam, it marks it & winds up in All Mail. Assuming I've done something wrong or haven't done something right to get all this functioning, then how would I archive mail I actually want to archive?
ok my next question was going to be why I have another subfolder of the Mike's Email .... And my Deleted Messages is also a Labeled folder... what am I doing wrong??
I've made a couple revelations poking around on my own... I opened all the flippy triangles in Mail & found the IMAP account's (Mike's Email) Junk folder & Trash folder. So this means the Deleted Messages subfolder under Mike's Email is unnecessary & I can zap it? And now Mike's Email will have 2 Junk folders, one on my hard drive for the one's gmail misses & then the Spam subfolder under Gmail for what it catches???
Still need to know how to archive mail in Mail & why that Comcast subfolder ended up there.
And while I'm at it... Under Trash, I have an empty trash subfolder called On My Mac. Is that there by default or can I nix it? And then, under On My Mac, I have a "Junk (Mike's Email)" subfolder for some reason... empty. A result of my experimenting perhaps??? Can I delete it?
Finally... with an IMAP acct, can I set up to hide deleted email rather than move it to a Trash folder, like w/a POP acct? Reason being, I have a non-gmail business (no mail archive feature) account I like to keep deleted emails for a year in. Mail's Delete Trash feature allows a month as the longest time for auto delete. Or if not, is there another way to accomplish this?
Michael Szromba wrote:
Fred... I really appreciate all the help... and the typing!! I'm taking baby steps here, from the beginning, to make certain I have an understanding.
There isn't a way to post a screenshot here is there? I wanted to show you how my folder hierarchy is set up to see if it all jibes.
I've added Gmail to the IMAP Path Prefix. It restructured things a bit, then went through a 10/15 minute resync. I have 5 accounts in Mail, the new IMAP acct & 4 POP's (which I'll be converting to IMAP's as soon as I understand all this). For the IMAP, I now have an inbox under Inbox; drafts under Drafts; sent under Sent, On My Mac and trash under Trash; nothing for the IMAP under Junk; junk (IMAP Acct) under On My Mac; then a whole separate folder structure for the IMAP with All Mail, Sent Mail (redundant from above) Spam, Starred. The extra Deleted Messages folder & the Comcast folder (labeled folder from gmail) are now gone.
Hey Fred... here's the screenshots. "Mike" is the IMAP acct. The shot labeled [Gmail] is with [Gmail] in the prefix area. Blank is left blank (after I had already set it to [Gmail] and it had done all it's restructuring/resyncing). The only difference is that, when left blank, it moves the IMAP Trash folder from the separate Trash area down with the other IMAP folders. And it also removes the On My Mac Trash folder.
Frederick Avolio wrote:
It looks like things are on target. The only things to do, if you want (and I am referring to Gmail.png) is to indicate that Mike/Sent Mail should be used for Sent, Mike/Spam as Junk, and you are good.
-fred
are all your folders shown on your blog under the IMAP acct like I have at the bottom?
Where is your Inbox?
Also, I'm still not understanding how to archive mail. Do I have to physically drag the mail to the folder or is there a button I can allocate for this?
Finally, are all those folders you've made gmail's Labeled folders? How does that work... are you receiving the mail in an inbox & then filing it or do you have some automation set up?
Archive & Delete Mail Buttons for Gmail IMAP Account?