I also have gmail accounts here and have been experimenting around with Mac Mail to figure out the best behavior for message deletion. First off, I do not see a good way to delete messages from gmail with the Mac mail client. Rather, you ultimately have to get the unwanted messages moved to [Gmail]/Trash. This is done easily enough with VO-Shift-M and choosing "Move to folder" and selecting Trash under the [Gmail] submenu. When I delete messages, I have the two checkboxes in mail box behavior enabled so deleted messages are left on the server but placed in a separate folder. Unfortunately, this action causes the messages to go in a folder or I should say more accurately, a label called Deleted Messages, thus they still remain in the All mail folder on the gmail server. Mere deletion just removes the labels but does not move them over to Trash. I cannot find a way to tell Apple Mail to move deleted messages to [Gmail]/Trash instead. Note above, I do have brackets around Gmail in the folder specifications. In any case, even your actions should have at least gotten the messages out of your inbox but done really deleted for good though.
I understand the IOS versions of Mail do this a better job. On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > Hi, > > I hope somebody has some suggestions about my mail problem. > > After a reinstall of Lion a couple weeks ago, I of course had to reinput my > mail account. I am using my gmail account. Now,, mail isn't deleting my > messages after I read them. The next time I reopen mail, the same messages > are back again! > > In mail preferences, I have it set to delete the trash when quitting mail, > and to not leave things on the server. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Before I had to reinstall Lion, my gamil account didn't act like this! > > thanks, > Caitlyn > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
