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What's the smartest way to use Gmail IMAP/Apple Mail in terms of deleting messages?
I know one of the of the virtues of Gmail is the ability to never delete, and instead archive all messages. But when using Gmail IMAP in Apple Mail, assuming you have other POP accounts you're checking as well, the temptation is to delete messages from your common inbox view as you read through them. If you do that, they are also deleted from Gmail, depriving you of your powerful total archive.
One suggestion I've seen is to drag messages to the "Gmail Archive" folder in Mail instead of deleting them, but that seems awkward and then requires you to take the extra time to look and see which mailbox a message came in to, and either decide to delete or drag to archive. That would add a whole lot of overhead to the simple act of reading your new mail.
Anyone have any suggestions for the best way to manage POP and Gmail IMAP email flow in the same Mail.app setup?
One suggestion I've seen is to drag messages to the "Gmail Archive" folder in Mail instead of deleting them, but that seems awkward and then requires you to take the extra time to look and see which mailbox a message came in to, and either decide to delete or drag to archive. That would add a whole lot of overhead to the simple act of reading your new mail.
Anyone have any suggestions for the best way to manage POP and Gmail IMAP email flow in the same Mail.app setup?
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Inappropriate?Hm... what if you setup your Gmail to forward to one of your other POP accounts that is already being downloaded into Apple Mail? -
Inappropriate?I like the features Gmail itself offers and want to keep using it on this account if at all possible. But the reverse of that might be a way to go -- send my other POP accounts through to Gmail...
Part of me still likes the "you own your messages, there's one copy, and they are right there in your user directory" aspect of POP, so before I do that I'd like to see if there are any other solutions.
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