I messed with it for about two hours and then went back to my old configuration. I noticed a few annoying things:
*After you close and reopen mail, the little link shortcut that shows you replied (that you also click to see your reply) no longer shows for any emails. It's like GMail doesn't keep those inter-message links. *New mail showed up in my Inbox AND in my All Mail folder. When I marked it read in my inbox, it did not mark read in All Mail. Requiring me to mark each message as read twice to keep my new message count down. Labels did the same thing. :( *When I deleted a message from my INBOX it was removed from All Mail also (I may have emptied my trash, not sure, but regardless). So then, how do you archive a message? I hope I'm doing something stupid, and others have got around these oddities. For now I just forward my Gmail to my .mac account, and send out via GMail's SMTP. So that way all my mail, sent and incoming, is archived in one easily searchable place.
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Dec 08, 2018 Launch the “System Preferences”. Click on the “Mail, Contact & Calendars” icon and choose Gmail. Type your email address including your password, and click “Setup”. Place a check next to the mail icon from a list of apps to use with the Gmail account and click “Done”. Feb 18, 2020 If the Mail app that comes with your Mac doesn't provide the features you need, you're in luck. There are dozens of great email apps in the Mac App Store. I've tested many of them and these are my favorites. Each one has a little something special that makes it unique. Polymail; Spark; Kiwi for Gmail; Postbox; Polymail. If you have more than one email account added on your device, you can choose the one you want by tapping on the email address field in the compose window and selecting the right one, or by going to Settings Mail, Contacts and Calendars, and making Gmail the default account.
I've also been playing with this and have a more positive take on it.
When you mark a message in the Inbox as read, the message is technically marked read in the All Mail folder as well, but you probably won't see this take effect until your folders are refreshed (or Mail.app is closed and opened again). You shouldn't have to manually mark the All Mail copy as read also. To archive messages, just put them into your All Mail folder in Mail.app. That is equivalent to archiving in Gmail. I hope you makes your experience slightly more pleasant!
A nice way to speed this up would be to install Mail Act-On, a plug-in for Mail that allows you to add keyboard shortcuts to actions like moving messages to specific folders and other cool things.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755&topic=12762
That's not the way it's supposed to work. If you delete a message from the Inbox, that should have the same effect as archiving it. After next sync, it should remain in All Mail. The only time deleting a message client-side should cause the actual deletion in Gmail is if the message was in Gmail/Trash. Did you re-map your Mail.app trash folder to match the Gmail trash folder? Because in that case, deleting it in Mail.app and emptying trash might have caused the exact sequence of events Gmail would recognize as delete-forever.
How did you switch back? I, too, like having that link to the reply I sent. I messed around with setting the 'Sent Messages' folder as the mailbox for Sent, and that didn't bring back my reply links. Neither did specifying that Mail not store sent messages on the server (per google's directions).
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders I am MADLY refreshing but still don't have Gmail IMAP..
Mac Os Make Gmail Default Mail App DownloadNew mail showed up in my Inbox AND in my All Mail folder. When I marked it read in my inbox, it did not mark read in All Mail. Requiring me to mark each message as read twice to keep my new message count down. Labels did the same thing. :(You should be able to create a simple filter in Apple Mail to mark new mail in All Mail as read upon arrival. Not sure if this would mark the Inbox mail as read too. And I guess it wouldn't solve the problem on iPhone.
You definitely don't want to delete mail from the Inbox - in gmail, deleting is deleting. What if you drag it from Inbox to All Mail? Does that just leave you with one copy in All and none in Inbox? Conceptually, that would seem to fit with the way Gmail is mapping labels to virtual IMAP folders. Wish I could test it myself..
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IMAP for Gmail has not come to England yet - at least not for my account!
--- Steve Ashcroft
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
I was able to get this working in the UK by using Firefox (it wouldn't show up in Safari) and setting my language preference in Gmail to 'English US'
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Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
Also works in UK with Camino by changing to English (US)
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
First, this hint applies to all IMAP accounts, not just that provided by Gmail.
Second, to have changes in your Inbox automatically reflected in the All Mail folder, choose Mail->Preferences->Accounts, select the Gmail IMAP account, and select the Advanced tab. There, check 'Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes'. That should do it, albeit with a performance hit.
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
A lot of IMAP questions (e.g. labels, deleted mail & All Mail, spam, etc.) are answered in Gmail's FAQ:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12760
I'm in the U.S. and in settings, it still reads 'Forwarding and POP' not 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP'..
I have multiple G-mail accounts and only one of them has the IMPA option available in the Forwarding and POP Settings.
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Whether I use Safari, or Camino it does not show up for me either. Google has not yet made it available to all GMail user. I have already two Imap accounts in Mail.app and I don't anticipate having any problems adding a third one. I must say that I did not get the point of the hint. I keep all my sent mailboxes separately in the side panel so that one can locate quickly replies from each account.
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
Another problem -- I told Mail to 'Use This Mailbox For -> Junk' on the Spam folder. After re-opening Mail, there are two Junk folders for Gmail, *both* called 'Gmail', but one's in the place Mail expects, the other's in the place Gmail expects.
Until I click on the one in Junk -- then it changes to 'Junk (Gmail)' and loses its paper bag icon, going back to a blue folder. NICE! It looks like this bogus new folder is being created by Mail when it finds new junk that Gmail didn't already find. Moving the (wrongly marked) messages out and then deleting the mailbox results in the *real* Gmail junk mailbox taking its place; as I configured it on the previous launch. Nice effort by Google, but their opinion of how mail should work seems to have dulled their ability to implement a compatible mail server. Just like Microsoft. 'Do no evil' my pooter. Apple's Mail isn't perfect, but it's very configurable and very compatible. If only Gmail could have the useless 'conversations' and tags things switched off..
I accidentally made the stared folder the draft folder. When I select the starred folder in the draft location I don't have the option to move it back. I also can't drag and drop it.
Maybe too late for you, but for the archives: to undo, simply select any other folder to be the Sent/Drafts/Junk folder. That will swap the old and newly selected folder.
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This hint also applies to iPhone.. go to Advanced in your mail settings and specify Drafts, Trash, etc.
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
Has anyone had problems with the Inbox email body getting corrupted after switching to Gmail IMAP?
The last few messages have come through with the body of a previous email. This is only occurs with the message in the Inbox. The message in the Gmail All Mail folder is fine.
Adding a Gmail IMAP account to Apple Mail had the unwanted side effect of moving the top-level mailboxes for my primary IMAP account (formerly a peers of Inbox, Drafts, Sent, et.al.) into a new mailbox folder corresponding to that account. And the Gmail account mailbox uses a similar top-level folder, which I couldn't make appear as a subfolder of the Inbox by trying different IMAP Path Prefix settings. Hopefully there will be a way to eventually use the previous folder layout that none of my other non-Gmail IMAP accounts disrupted.
Common IMAP servers actually have folders as children of the INBOX folder and these seem to display most logically in Mail.app. Unfortunately Gmails folders (tags) are at the same level as the INBOX and hence display in this less than ideal way. I too have tried experimented with Path Prefixes to no avail - this is a deal breaker for me.
Agreed. I think I figured out how to get this working though. When creating a new folder, prepend 'INBOX/' to it to create the folder underneath your Inbox. E.g. INBOX/foo. This will make Gmail's IMAP just like more like what we're used to. Through the gmail web interface, you will see a corresponding new label appear, so you could probably create it through either interface. Tip: I had to quit and restart Mail to get it to notice the first one I created.
Even though this gets Mail.app to put the little triangle next to your inbox, you still can't seem to drag folders directly under your Inbox. You could create all your folders manually, or I found you can drag folders under any new folders you create. So I just created a folder called INBOX/folders, and then dragged all my folders under that. Hope this helps anybody, this was driving me crazy too.
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
FWIW, Google recommends that you don't store sent messages and deleted messages on the server. To delete a message, just move it to your [Gmail]/Trash folder. Deleting a message on your IMAP client then just removes the label it has for that folder (archives a message in the inbox, same as the 'y' keyboard shortcut on the web). Sent messages are automagically copied to your sent items when you send them through smtp.google.com. They do however recommend that you store drafts on the server so they are always in sync.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892
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This is a good idea, but since there's no Gmail Inbox, I'm wondering how to handle this. Ideally I'd like for all email to be on my local machine and on Gmail for future access. I too have duplicate boxes, and I'm really getting confused as to what's what.
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That is a great suggestion, prepending 'INBOX/.' Worked perfectly for me. Gmail should add it to their FAQ's!
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I understand why I don't want Apple Mail to move my deleted messages to [GMail]/Trash. So I don't do that.
But in my other IMAP servers, Apple Mail seems to be able to support 'Undo Delete Message', so that if I am too quick on the draw deleting a message out of my InBox, Command-Z will bring it back (there is actually a history, I can undelete some number of messages, not just the last). This feature does not work for my GMail IMAP account, but I can't tell why. I tried the setting of _not_ moving deleted messages to the Trash at all. This results in the message being marked deleted in my InBox, but as soon as the InBox gets sync-ed, it is also immediately expunged. So even with Show Deleted Messages on, I don't see the deleted message, and Mail does not offer an Undo option to bring it back. My next thought was to create a 'Deleted' label (which Mail would treat as a folder) and tell Mail to move deleted messages to that 'folder'. It seemed to me, this should be just like other IMAP servers now. When I deleted a message from my InBox, Mail would 'move' it to the Deleted folder, GMail would remove the InBox label and add the Deleted label. My hope was that this would make the Undo Deleted Message action work in Mail, but, no joy.. Any suggestions?
I have a Gmail added to my mail.app as an IMAP account, but the All Mail folder doesn't show all the mail that exists in that folder online in gmail. It only has 300 or so of about 2000 messages. Has anyone had this problem? Everything else seems to update/sync fine. Thanks.
In both my Mail & iPhone, I map 'All Mail' to Trash. This way, when I delete emails, it disappears from the folder the email was in but a copy remains in All Mail instead of it being deleted entirely. Others do the same?
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders There's a more compact summary of many of these tips, including:• the main one of mapping app/functional mailboxes • the correspondence of 'archive' to 'move to All Mail' • integration into the Mail hierarchy via 'Advanced' options and Gmail For Mac Mail• (bonus hint!) a tip that Mail 'flagging' corresponds to Gmail 'starring'.http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862 Best to all, M.
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Mail.app on OS X 10.5 does not work well with Gmail via IMAP.
Since December I have been using the Gmail / IMAP configuration to keep mail in sync. Overall this does not work very well and I have experienced a variety of problems. I am now reverting to the reliable POP configuration.
1) Mail.app does not sync To Do's well. a) Multiple entries appear in Gmail. b) Mail.app often hangs / crashes when creating a To Do 2) Mail.app does not sync mail contents properly. On occasions it does not sync attachments, but instead garbled ansi texts. 3) Mail.app syncs multiple copies of the same mail.
Map Gmail IMAP Folders to Mail.app Default Folders
If one goes to Settings in the GMail web interface and selects the Labs tab and then selects 'Advanced IMAP Controls,' this problem can be solved by simply selecting which mailboxes you want to appear in IMAP.
Emailing is probably the activity we do the most on our computers. Even if you don't work on a computer during the day, you probably sit down in front of it to check your inbox at the end of the day. If the Mail app that comes with your Mac doesn't provide the features you need, you're in luck. There are dozens of great email apps in the Mac App Store. I've tested many of them and these are my favorites. Each one has a little something special that makes it unique.
Polymail
Polymail for Mac has a fantastic interface with cute buttons everywhere so you don't have to think about what to do next. It actually looks like it belongs on a mobile device, except that you click the buttons instead of tapping them.
There is a fourth section that appears whenever you select an email, which displays all of the past correspondences you've had with that particular contact or group of contacts. It's great for quickly tracking down something you've talked about in the past.
You can set up new mail with a pre-made template, send calendar invites, get notifications when someone has read your email, and schedule an email to be sent at a later time.
You can also write or respond to emails with rich text formatting. So, if you want to change the font, add bold lettering, bullet point a section, or just slap an emoji in there, it's all available right from the toolbar at the top of your new email. The only thing it's missing is Touch Bar support, which would really make this app shine.
Polymail can be used for free, but you'll need to sign up for a subscription if you want all of the awesome features that make Polymail stand out, like read notifications, send later, and messaging templates. You can add these features for as low as $10 per month. If you are a heavy email user and these features entice you, give the free trial a run to see if it's worth your money.
If you want your computer email experience to look and feel more like a mobile experience, with big, easy-to-find action buttons, Polymail is the one for you.
Spark
Spark has this 'Smart Inbox' feature that separates mail into categories: Personal, Notifications, Newsletters, Pinned, and Seen. That is, any email that is from someone in your contacts or otherwise looks like a personal email will be filtered to the top of the inbox list. Below that, in a separate section, emails that look like alerts from companies you deal with, like your gas company or Amazon, that include some kind of alert or notification. Below that, you'll see a section called 'Newsletters' which is exactly that. Below that, there are emails you've flagged or tagged as important in some way. Lastly, emails you've seen, but haven't moved to another folder.
Spark also allows you to snooze an email and come back to take care of it at a later time. This is invaluable when you regularly get emails that you need to respond to but don't have time for until the end of the day. I use it all of the time. Software upgrade mac os x 10.5.8.
It also has gesture-based actions for getting to inbox zero. You can swipe to the right or left to delete, archive, pin, or, mark an email as unread.
And it has Touch Bar support, which I love.
Spark is best for people that like to have their inbox organized before they go through and move emails to new folders, address them, or delete them entirely. If that sounds appealing to you, try Spark.
Kiwi for Gmail
If you have one or more Gmail accounts, you should consider switching to Kiwi. This all-in-one triumph brings the look and feel of Gmail for the web to the desktop in the form of an app. With the service's unique Focus Filtered Inbox, you can view your messages based on Date, Importance, Unread, Attachments, and Starred. In doing so, you can prioritize your emails in real-time.
Perhaps the best reason to use Kiwi for Gmail is its G Suite integration. Thanks to the app, you now get to experience Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, as windowed desktop applications. Kiwi is available for Mac and Windows.
Postbox
New on our list for 2020, Postbox has been designed for professionals, but anyone with more than one email account should continue using it. Available for Mac and Windows, Postbox works with any IMAP or POP account, including Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, and more.
Postbox offers one of the fastest email search engines available, which is ideally suited when you need to find files, images, and other attachments. With the app's built-in Quick Bar, you can move a message, copy a message, switch folders, tag a message, Gmail label a message, or switch folders with just a few keystrokes.
Looking for more? Postbox comes with 24 (counting) themes, and much more.
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Updated February 2020: Guide updated to reflect price changes and more.
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