Comments on: Leopard : Apple Mail + Gmail + IMAP (video)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:16 +0000

Josh,

The problem with having your prefix as [Gmail] is that you no longer see your labels. I have filters for my labels on gmail and that allows me to have filters in one place.

On the minus side. Mail seems to not retrieve messages as soon as they come in. I had a smoother response time with Thunderbird, however, I prefer using mail. Give and take I gues.

By: David Johnston

David Johnston — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:39:44 +0000

You know I thought I had the problem worked out. As soon as I clicked on all mail I’d be presented with multiple copies of the note again.

I also found that the previous versions of notes and older notes would be forever in my GMail account only visible in “All Mail” I had a massive thread in there called “New Note”.

As long as I didn’t click on “All Mail” it appears to work.

Something’s really broken.

By: David Johnston

David Johnston — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:13:57 +0000

In answer to Jack’s question…

I was having the same problem Jack. The notes work by simply e-mailing yourself. Now I use a comma separated list of e-mail addresses in the “Address” field when setting up my account. When I made a note, Mail was sending these out to all of the addresses listed, which for me meant that they all landed back in the one place resulting in multiple copies. The fix was to only have one email address for that account. Sucks I know…

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:17:01 +0000

I am having problems with Notes showing up multiple times. The only fix I could find is disable storing notes on the server from the preference screen. It’s not ideal but having every note show up multiple times is annoying.

Any better solutions out there?

By: Emad

Emad — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:50:46 +0000

Thanks Josh, it’s working good now. I also got it working on my iphone as well.

My Google for your domain account has been upgraded and IMAP is working on my iphone great. I love it.

By: Josh Pyles

Josh Pyles — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:32:39 +0000

Well now that i’ve seen your last video it looks like you actually figured that last part out. Still change your prefix though, it will take away that [Gmail] thing

By: Josh Pyles

Josh Pyles — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:31:24 +0000

There’s a lot more to it then that…

Set the IMAP prefix to [Gmail] in settings

Click on the Spam folder under Gmail and choose (finder menu) Mailbox -> Use this mailbox for: -> Junk

Do this for all the folders that make sense (Drafts to drafts—that one might automatically set, not sure) Sent Mail to Sent Messages.

Be careful though, an incorrect setup can lead to sending your message every one minute while you’re typing it, that happened to me.