[Ti] Problems with Mac mail and gmail

[Ted at Mac]

I can offer a few suggestions.

Check the account settings and make sure they are not set to delete  
incoming messages.  Are these set up as POP3 or IMAP... I suggest  
using IMAP on the .mac and gmail.

gmail ... I always have to use their web interface to delete e-mail  
messages.  If I use Mail, sometimes it deletes them, sometime it does  
not...



On May 15, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> I am posting this to the List on behalf of
>
> Dr Fulcieri Maltini
> 11290 Alairac - France
>
> who is unable to post to the List , because his post was "rejected  
> by the webmaster a couple of times for unclear reasons".
> As you see, he has some severe email problems with his MacBook Pro  
> (and his iMac and iPhone).
> Hopefully someone can give him some clues / hints....
>
>
> 1. I have OSX 10.5.6 and Mail 3.5.
> I have four email addresses into Mail App :fulcierimaltini at mac.com, fulcierimaltini at gmail.com 
> , fmaltini at gmail.com and fulcierimaltini at compuserve.com (I will  
> discontinue this latter next month).
>
> 2. When iMac, MacBP and iPhone are on, I receive some emails in one  
> machine but not in the others. To be sure to get all emails (I get  
> dozen a day) I am obliged to switch off two machines and work only  
> with one.
>
> 3. Suddenly Mac Mail got mad: I receive all mails in double; when  
> erasing sometimes they go into the in Trash, other times I get a  
> message "The message “PV in Bulgaria” could not be moved to the  
> mailbox “(null) - The destination mailbox “(null)” does not allow  
> messages to be moved to it.".
>
> 4. When drafting a mail and saving it in Draft mailbox, this appear  
> three or four times in the Draft mailbox.
>
> 5. On gmail apparently emails are not deleted as they reappear  
> entering in the computer again as I see the mailactivity indicator  
> receiving 30 to 150 mails incoming.
>
> 6. On the left side column of Mail page where I have several  
> mailboxes, suddenly new mailboxes have appeared (Mobileme with:  
> Deleted messages (empty), Drafts (empty), Sent messages (empty),  
> Sent messages-mobile me (including most of sent messages). Other  
> additional mysterious mailboxes  are Gmail and Compuserve both  
> including similar sub boxes as with Mobileme.
>
> I admit I have lots of email in the two computers, but I despite  
> having tried to erase most of them and in particular gmail,  they  
> reappear again as they were not deleted in the server.
> I have now  19108 (!!) emails and, more I erase them, more they  
> reappear.
>
> I am tempted to dump in the trash the entire Mail App  but you may  
> have some better suggestions to solve this mess. By the way, I have  
> Sophos Anti-Virus who detected a couple of viruses that have been  
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