Hi, I read the artical. The only problem I see is that I do not see the expander triangal that he sppoke of in the artical. How do I find this in vo.
Matthew On 8/26/09, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello John and Matthew, > > This has been posted to the list before (by Jonathan?), but there is a > TidBITS article by the author of the "Take Control of Apple Mail in > Leopard" guide that explains the way that Gmail works. It's called > "Achieving Email Bliss with IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail" and can be > found at: > > http://db.tidbits.com/article/10253 > > One of the features of the Gmail "flavor" of using IMAP, is that Gmail > doesn't use different mailboxes or folders per se -- instead, it > assigns multiple tags or labels. The problem of getting labels-as- > mailboxes to sync locally and also to archive mail is described in > detail in this rather long article. This is also behind the issue of > why messages you post to the list don't show up in a list mailbox. > There's a final section on "How to Configure Everything for Maximum > Happiness" if you want to skip past all the explanations. This > describes the way the author has set up his own Gmail account. There > are other described setups and explanations floating around the net. > For example, there is this article from the ExpanDrive blog titled > "Setup Gmail IMAP, Mail.app, and the iPhone with Archive": > > http://blog.expandrive.com/2008/11/17/setup-gmail-imap-mailapp-and-the-iphone-with-archive/ > > The salient feature of this set up is that everything the author > "deletes" locally gets archived forever on Gmail. (I'm pretty sure > that most of you don't want to set up your accounts that way). Here's > his description: > <begin quote> > I’m going to explain how to setup Gmail to work the right way with > Mail.app and the iPhone. “Right”, of course, means “the way I want it > to work.” In particular, this means that I want “deleting” something > in my client to make it “archived” in Gmail for eternity. I almost > never want an email to be deleted forever. I also want Sent Messages > and Drafts to work in a reasonable way, but delete -> archive is the > big one for me. > <end quote> > One of the tricky items of this article is that the author includes > a .png graphic of his settings, however, if you read the text, he is > using all the same settings that are recommended by Gmail in the link > he gives, except for changing their "Sent" mail option to store sent > mail on the server and never delete it. Similarly, for the iPhone > setup in the Advanced menu for his selected mail account, he is > changing the settings to keep deleted mail on his iPhone and never > remove them. > > Both these articles, their links, and the comments that follow them > made for interesting reading, but I would stick to Joe Kissell's > TidBITS article if you want to "achieve Email bliss". And if you want > to read the TidBITS Talk discussion comments here's the link that > comes up so that you don't have to run a search on their site: > > http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/2639 > > Note that the TidBITS Talk page only shows the most recent posts on > this fairly active thread for comments. If you want to start reading > comments from the beginning, look for the "All Messages" link, and VO- > Space on that. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > This was also interesting to read, and > > On Aug 26, 2009, John JD Denning wrote: > >> >> Interesting, I have the reverse. I see folders I didn't create and >> would rather not have. I just created my gmail account recently. I'm >> used to IMAP with my mobileme acct and Outlook at work. But Gmail >> seems to have a mind of it's own. >> >> I have two folders that I can see, nothing new shows in them until I >> select them, then they populate. Things get sent to the SPAM folder >> and there is no rime or reason, and no filter that I can find doing >> it. >> >> I post to this list, it doesn't show up in the list mailbox I have. It >> does show up in All Mail, and sent. OK I see why it shows up in sent, >> but it should also show as an incoming email on the group. >> >> Guess I have to read more of the help files, is there one titled, >> "black art of Gmail." >> >> On Aug 26, 2009, at matthew dyer wrote: >> >>> >>> Good morning all, I went and created folders as well as filteras for >>> some of the messages I am getting. The problem is that in mail I do >>> not see them in the mail boxes tabole. If I go to move a message to >>> one of thoughes mail boxes they show up but not in the mailboxes >>> table. Is there anything I need to do in mail tio fix this>? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall. >>> >>> MSN/e-mail: [email protected] >>> AIM: mattdy1 >>> skype: graduater2004. >>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > > > > -- You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall. MSN/e-mail: [email protected] AIM: mattdy1 skype: graduater2004. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
