I inadvertently typed the word "older", in my previous post to this thread, when I meant to type "newer".
The corrected version follows: Mark Hello Brian, First, let me say that the native Apple mail application works just fine with gMail in both Yosemite and in the soon-to-be-released El Capitan operating system. Second, the reason your gMail account reached its storage limit is because of the way Google handles message tagging. There is a lot of information on the web about how Google handles mail, with regard to labels but the long and short of it is the following: 1. In order to be considered gMail compatible, a mail client must automatically move all deleted mail to the Trash folder on the gMail server. That is to say, the message must be labeled as Trash. Both the latest version of Apple Mail and MS Outlook 2010 and newer do this. 2. If your mail client does not do this, then you, as the user, must move unwanted messages to the Trash folder, manually from within the Mail client. For example, when I use Office Outlook 2007, instead of simply pressing the Delete key on my keyboard, I tap the Applications Key, then select Move To, then select Trash. This only takes about a second longer than just pressing the delete key but it must be done if I want gMail to behave as expected. Okay, okay, getting down to the answer to your question: To reclaim your gMail storage space: 1. Assuming you're in the United States, go to http:// mail.google.com and log into your gMail account from your preferred web browser. 2. Go to the All Mail Folder. 3. Select all of the messages. 4. Activate the Move To Trash Button. Doing this will "move" all of your messages to the Trash folder. To be more exact, all of the messages will be labeled as Trash. 5. Open the Trash folder. 6. Empty the Trash folder by clicking the Empty Trash button. Finally, note that unless you change the default gMail settings, all messages labeled Trash will automatically be deleted after 30 days. Good Luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Help with Gmail and storage Hey all, After the debacle that was I believe Mavericks and gmail not playing well together I moved everything to Apple mail. I was able to set my gmail account to forward everything to my Apple mail and all has been fine since then until now. I just found out that my gmail account is now completely full all free 15 gigs.. So my question to those of you who are still using the gmail website with VoiceOver is how with this new look gmail which by the way at first glance is awful with VO how do you first delete what is in your inbox and then how in the world do you permanently delete old trash mail so it is not taking up space. This new look gmail keeps wanting to tell me social stuff and show me things from youtube. Very annoying and not very straight forward. Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
