[Ti] Problems with Mac mail and gmail

[Dennis Fazio]

On May 24, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Ted @ Mac wrote:

> 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...

With IMAP, there are two steps to get rid of a message:  delete and  
expunge.

Delete just flags the message for removal. Delete marks it for  
removal, but it may stay in the inbox. Expunge actually removes the  
message from the inbox and scatters it to the ether.

With Apple Mail, I think when you delete, it puts it in your trash  
mailbox, but it is only flagged on the server. when you empty your  
trash mailbox, that sends and expunge command to the server.

Using different mail clients (e.g. Apple Mail and web mail) can make  
this more confusing sometimes.
That could be explaining the behavior you notice.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com