Timeline for Accessing Gmail via IMAP using Lion's Mail client
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 6:06 | comment | added | conorgriffin | Yeah Harv you're right I think | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 1:59 | vote | accept | Cleggy | ||
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:52 | comment | added | Harv | @Griffo - the behaviour of Google's "All Mail" folder goes way beyond the scope of what you're trying to do. It can be a serious pain in the rear and Mail.app really isn't smart enough to know about what it should/shouldn't do with mail in there. As far as Mail.app is concerned, it's just another folder. I would uncheck the "Show in IMAP" for this folder as well, in order to avoid using it at all as it totally messes up Google's internal structure.. or can. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:42 | history | edited | conorgriffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:35 | comment | added | conorgriffin | I think Mail.app needs to download each mail so it can build its local database. For example, all emails in the Inbox will also be in 'All Mail' in GMail. But it needs to download them to actually realise that they are the same emails. So each time you click on a folder which is not Inbox, Mail check if it has downloaded those mails and if not then it downloads them. I don't think it will store them separately though. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:29 | comment | added | Cleggy | @Griffo - I do want copies of emails downloaded locally. The problem is the unexpected synchronization of 1500 emails, when I thought the local IMAP synch process had finished a long time ago (I initiated the switchover yesterday). That may not be the case. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:29 | history | edited | conorgriffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:26 | comment | added | Cleggy | @Harv - Yeah I did realize that. I guess I need to make the leap of faith and delete my POP account (it is currently only set to no longer automatically download new messages). I thought I had synched my IMAP messages yesterday, as it attempted to synch approximately 55K emails. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:22 | comment | added | conorgriffin | I've laid out your choices for syncing mail in the answer above. If you don't want the Mail.app downloading all your email to your computer then you need to pick one of the non-default choices. Once it's downloaded, it won't do it again unless you remove the account. Also, you need to choose IMAP or POP, not both. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:22 | comment | added | Cleggy | I've just unchecked the 'Show in IMAP' option for the Spam label, so hopefully this will resolve the problem. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:21 | history | edited | conorgriffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:17 | comment | added | Harv | @Cleggy - mail downloaded via POP/IMAP are treated separately. Your entire set of mail (plus whatever's in All Mail) needs to be re-downloaded using the new protocol. Or so is my understanding. The limit exceeded message is Google locking you out of your account for exceeding a bandwidth limitation. Set it up, make sure you're not downloading attachments, and let it sync up. Be patient. Once it finishes, remove your old (POP) account. At this point consider downloading attachments. That's it! | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 0:08 | comment | added | Cleggy | Thanks for the advice (especially WRT two-factor auth). With the exception of that, my configuration is pretty much how you describe it above. However, I've just disabled POP access again, and now IMAP is downloading 1589 messages! I have not received that many valid emails since I had been temporarily locked out of the IMAP interface, so I'm scratching my head as to why this is happening. At this stage I'm thinking it may be attempting to download copies of messages that Gmails spam filter has trapped. If so, is there a way to prevent this from happening? | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 23:28 | history | edited | conorgriffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 23:09 | history | answered | conorgriffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |