Q: Apple mail does not sync with gMail

I'm not indifferent, in fact I prefer to act by relegating my Gmail account to the status of Junk collector. And to be clear, I have never had any problem with Mail and Gmail, it worked in the past and still works now. I just have no wish for my emails (and contacts etc) to become a revenue stream for Google. I will decide who sees my emails, not Google.

There are plenty of cheap Gmail clients and even more alternative free email systems, most of which work rather better (in any client) than Gmail does.

If you're using Gmail then use Mailplane on your Mac, it is far and away the best Gmail client.

if we knew that Apple are working on it...i think that this will be different....but the silence from apple is the worst thing..

I paid 2000US for my mac so i can (and i could)spend 1,99USD in Airmail APP, but is not about money....and is not the same if i compare MAIL VS AIRMAIL. I´m already used to use MAIL APP.

I dont like to work with my emails in the web google interface. I like my MAIL APP

Having even more problems this morning with one specific gmail account trying to sync with gmail via mail. The activity window keeps showing it chewing on syncing all mailboxes associated with that one specific account. No problem with several other gmail accounts, other than the normal. It takes minutes for it to resolve. No problem with this yesterday. Airmail running concurrent and no problems.

Along with the problems of google holding on to more than a year's worth of my email for each account (and harvesting informationi), I'm closer to trying to forward all my gmail accounts to icloud, downloading into mail, and figuring out how to keep replying to my gmail addresses so it looks like the same account. I don't want everything to come via an iCloud.com email address.

Airmail works seamlessly, but there's a few features I want that I think it doesn't have. Time and energy I don't have right now to explore more of it's options or ask develpers for more features.

Anyone tried this?

Is there any way to re-instal Apple Mail without reinstalling the entire Maverick operating system. Since many people don't have this particular problem, I'm wondering if a reinstall would solve the problem. Kinda drastic...but...

mmhere wrote:

 

Is there any way to re-instal Apple Mail without reinstalling the entire Maverick operating system. Since many people don't have this particular problem, I'm wondering if a reinstall would solve the problem. Kinda drastic...but...

No, but a reinstall of OSX is a simple procedure. But a backup should be in hand, just in case.

mmhere, I opened Mail with my gmail and icloud accounts active, and created all the folders in icloud that I wanted to move from gmail.  From within Mail, I just simply dragged the messages from the gmail folder to the icloud folder.  It seems to have worked. 

Do you think that re installing OSX again could be a solution? anybody could try this option?

Yesterdy i deleted my google app account and re-create again....and  works only for 14hours

Now i am again with the same problem. Doesnt works in MAIL APP, but is working properly in Airmail

any idea?

(sorry about my english)

No is not a solution, I tried to reinstall all OS X.

Airmail does work and I don't have any problems syncing or receiving new mails. However, Airmail does not have all of the features, and is not fantastic at handling multiple accounts with large amounts of email. Startup of Airmail (for me) is very slow. It can take more than 10 minutes for the emails to load at startup. Once they are there, it works fine. Search is also very slow, and it doesn't appear to search all email folders as Apple Mail does.

What we really need is for Apple to fix the problem with Mail!!!!!

HRHtheKing wrote:

 

What we really need is for Apple to fix the problem with Mail!!!!!

As Mail works just fine for me (and others) I do not want to see any changes that might affect that.

We does not = all.

What we really need is for Apple to fix the problem with Mail!!!!!

I'm not part of your "we."

Mail has been working fine for me too. And, none of my growing clan of Mac users are having any issues with it either.

So if I don't have cancer, should we stop all medical research for cancer?

Clearly there are a large number of people that are experiencing problems, and this discussion is about how to either work around, or resolve the problem. I personally know quite a few people having this issue, some are experiencing more problems  than others. I have tried all of the suggestions posted here, and the problem has always returned.

Please can we keep this discussion focused on helping Apple to understand the importance of fixing Mail. Personal opinions and bashing Google adds zero value to fixing the problem.

Here we are discussing about THIS problem, if you don't have THIS PROBLEM we don't need to know that everithing is ok for you, it have no sense in this discussion. Want to report to Apple even this now?
We trying to help the community with singular bad experience, not working for Apple or spendind all day in every part of this forum.

HRHtheKing wrote:

 

So if I don't have cancer, should we stop all medical research for cancer?

This isn't cancer.

lucamenna wrote:

 

Here we are discussing about THIS problem, if you don't have THIS PROBLEM we don't need to know that everithing is ok for you, it have no sense in this discussion. Want to report to Apple even this now?
We trying to help the community with singula experience, not working for Apple or spendind all day in every part of this forum.

If you treat this problem as though it were a general problem you will be looking in the wrong place. That will make it difficult, if not impossible to find a solution. And that is a long way from being helpful.