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Originally Posted by Benson  No when I delete in Mail, it doesn't delete it from Gmail. Therfore when I re open Mail again, the email that I have deleted comes back in!!!!!! |
Hey Benson,
The problem you have is that Google's implementation of IMAP is buggy and they do not follow a standard such as Washington's or Cyrus's implementation of IMAP. The reason why is because of Google's labeling system. The problem is that each IMAP folder is a label - so when you delete an email you are just removing the label.
In order to delete an email message you will have to physically move the message to the [Gmail]/Trash folder in the IMAP folders shown in the client. Once the e-mails are moved to Trash folder, it will be automatically purged by Google in 30 days. This can be configured on the client so it doesn't wait for 30 days.
Don't give up on IMAP - its a great protocol and I swear by it
It's just Google's qwirly implementation.
Dan