Cait, Thanks for the tip. On my Mavericks system the checkbox for moving deleted message to trash is dimmed. But the other settings seem to work.
Chris On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Caitlyn furness <[email protected]> wrote: > go intomail prefs on your mac. go to the accounts section and pick gmail. > then, go to the mailbox behaviours tab and in there you can pick what you > want mail to do with the messages. It’s a pop up button and you can pick > deletion on closing mail, keep deleted messages for one day, a week, a month, > or the first option. Also, make sure your deleted messages are going into > the trash and not being archived. You can check this in this same tab. > hth, > Cait > > On Nov 16, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Jane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have Mail on my Mac and iPad and on the GMail server set to iMap. for >> some reason, when I tell Mail to delete stuff, it doesn't delete it, it just >> holds it. I can see the emails in the deleted items folder--over six >> thousand messages, but I don't see how to reliably delete them on Gmail >> using the Mac. Does anyone have suggestions? >> >> Jane >> >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
