![]() (A post on Pocket-lint suggests that the changes to Mail’s behavior with regard to All Mail were at Google’s behest, but I reported this to Apple as a bug, and it was marked as a duplicate, which means only that I wasn’t the first person to report it, not necessarily that Apple is planning to fix it. That will, of course, drive anyone to distraction. Unfortunately, if you had hidden the All Mail label from Mail in Mavericks, then any messages you move from your Inbox (by filing or deleting) magically reappear back in the Inbox later - after you switch to another mailbox and switch back, or close and reopen Mail. I’ve always counseled against using the Delete key to mean “save this forever,” but if you’re in the habit of pressing Delete to archive, that won’t work anymore in Mavericks. Note that deleting a message in Mavericks Mail won’t archive it in All Mail it (logically enough) moves it to the Trash. As part of this approach, it now treats archiving Gmail messages essentially the way Gmail itself does - moving a message from the Inbox to Archive removes the Inbox label, which means it shows up only in Gmail’s All Mail list (unless you apply another label in Gmail or move it to another mailbox in Mail). Mail in Mavericks tries to meet Gmail on its own terms, more or less. But hiding All Mail prevented the problem. That led to lots of duplicate messages, wasted disk space and bandwidth, and reduced performance. All Mail is exactly what it sounds like - all your saved and sent messages, regardless of whether or how they’re labeled - and having All Mail enabled, prior to Mavericks, meant that Mail would download at least two copies of every message (one in All Mail and one each in a mailbox corresponding to any labels you applied in Gmail). And if you followed them before upgrading to Mavericks, you’ll need to take some steps to undo some of the problems.īefore Mavericks, the approach that worked best with Gmail accounts in Mail was to go into Gmail’s settings and prevent the All Mail label from being exposed to IMAP clients. In fact, following those old directions now will lead you far from bliss. As I documented in “ Achieving Email Bliss with IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail,”, you just do x, y, and z (well, 21 steps’ worth of x, y, and z), and it will all work ![]() But, after much trial and error, I eventually found a combination of Mail settings and Gmail settings that, prior to Mavericks, resulted in a stable - and indeed largely pleasant - experience. Pseudo-IMAP Changes - Mail and Gmail were never a fantastic combination out of the box, because Gmail has a wacky, highly nonstandard way of using IMAP, and Mail always wanted to treat Gmail as though it were a conventional IMAP server. (The Joe Hulk drawing above is a snippet of an awesome Joy of Tech comic published in response to this article.) Here’s what I’ve observed and what you can (and can’t) do about it. Your mileage may vary, of course, but based on my own experiences and those of hundreds of people who have commented online, Mail’s behavior with Gmail accounts - especially at first - leaves a lot to be desired. Although some of the changes are quite clever and useful, the implementation is not without flaws. ![]() #1666: Air quality websites and apps, The Password GameĪpple Mail in OS X 10.9 Mavericks treats Gmail accounts differently than any previous version of Mail did.#1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request music.#1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.
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