Q: How can I set my iPhone's Mail app to archive an email when I select "Archive Message" and move it to Trash when I press "Delete Message", like in gmail's native web interface?
I'm using the native iPhone's Mail app to read my gmail, whith the accounts set as a normal gmail account (not Exchange).
If I go to Settings, Mails, select a gmail account an set "Archive Messages = OFF", then I can only Delete mails, and if I want to archive an email I have to manually move it to the folder I'd like it to be archived in, despite having rules in gmail to label all incoming mails properly. Very inconvenient.
On the other hand, if I set it to "Archive Messages = ON", then all emails end up archived in gmail's "All mail" folder, even the ones I decided to delete by pressing the "Delete Message" button. (Very weird behavior! I just realized this today and have hundreds of mails I thought were deleted mixed with the ones I wanted to archive!)
The only way to really delete a message (move it to gmail's Trash folder) is to manually move it to the Gmail Trash folder. Very inconvenient too.
For me this is a bug, I'm going to report it to Apple.
Have you found a way to make it behave like it shoud ?
iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1
Posted on Mar 17, 2013 9:29 AM