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To my mind, Gmail has always been broken because it utterly fails at being able to delete messages when acting as an IMAP backend. On iOS, this problem has gen
by chrisfinazzo 8y ago
To my mind, Gmail has always been broken because it utterly fails at being able to delete messages when acting as an IMAP backend.
On iOS, this problem has generally been solved, but on the Mac, it remains a clusterfuck. I have no hope it will ever be fixed.
While my primary account is still there, I moved my personal domain address to Fastmail.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI actually discovered recently Gmail has a setting for configuring this behavior over IMAP. But yes, countless times I discovered emails I had deleted on my Windows Phone just got archived silently. I wish their default was to behave like IMAP is supposed to, but my guess is they wanted to err on the side of not deleting data.
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoThe settings exist, but at least on the Desktop (e.g, in a web browser), I have no confidence that the application will honor those selections. The disappointing part of all this is I specifically remember when they fixed this in iOS 3 with one 'Archive' toggle switch that in combination with Google settings actually did what I wanted. I'd be curious to know how G employees handle email inside the mothership given these constraints - do they fix it server side?