Mail App Very Slow to Retrieve GMail Messages

TheBigCheese wrote:

I don't appreciate snotty answers from people too lazy to read and understand my posts. I did say "10 minutes to retrieve ONE message". If Apple can not support GMail properly, that's gross incompetence or worse. Everyone else can retrieve GMail messages and Apple used to (even Microsoft).

And I answered your first post using at least one possible correct meaning, of "retrieve one message". Getting annoyed with someone who didn't interpret your words the way you thought they should is not a good way to get people to help you.

Best of luck.

Gmail no longer supports push email through the built in iOS Mail app. You're limited to pull which is, at best, about every 10 minutes. Unless Google changes their stance, there is no way to change that. If you want to get the mail immediately, you'll need to continue to use the Gmail app.

I too have had a similar issue with syncing Gmail with Mail, Mailbird, Outlook, Spark and several other clients. This is what worked for me.

1. Go to the web client (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all) mark All of your email as Read - to do this use the small drop down arrow next to the refresh icon. Note. when you have selected All you will see another selection just above the email subject heading that reads something like this:
   "All 100 messages on this page are selected.Select all xx,xxx messages in All Mail:" where xx,xxx is the total number of emails.
   Click the underlined text to ensure that All of the mail 'really is' selected
   The More menu has the Mark as Read option
   
2. Go back to your client: Mail, Outlook etc and try setting up and syncing the email account again
   
3. If this fails go back to the web client, select All Mail again and then Archive them. This is that small square icon with a downwards pointing arrow; don't worry you'll not lose any of your emails. "It's Google - they don't delete anything!"
   
4. Go back and try your Mail clients again.

Hope this helps!

p.s - you can view all of your Archived Emails by clicking the 'All Emails' label/menu

p.p.s - It had nothing to do with 2 factor Authentication, that was a red herring

The additional information might certainly have changed my answer had you taken the trouble to include it in your first post.

What remains true is that Gmail doesn't play very well with the Mail app. I'd recommend continuing to use the Gmail app.

tony247 wrote:

This might help you:

https://www.google.de/amp/s/geardiary.com/2009/04/06/one-simple-tweak-that-made- my-iphone-gmail-retrieval-lightning-fast/amp/?client=safari

Yes, if you pull less data, it's faster. However, if you use any kind of rules or label things on the iPhone, this could be a problem.

This might help you:

https://www.google.de/amp/s/geardiary.com/2009/04/06/one-simple-tweak-that-made- my-iphone-gmail-retrieval-lightning-fast/amp/?client=safari