Sync deleted emails with Gmail

Wojciech Żuk wojciech.zuk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 19:41:08 BST 2016


Thank your all for help, my problem is solved.
Dmitry has right, after unchecked All Mail to not be as IMAP folder, now
everythin work as expected, deleted emails are also deleted from All Mail
;) (completely don't understand why this setting helped but whatever)

thanks,
Wojtek

2016-08-16 4:32 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Alexandrov <321942 at gmail.com>:

> Dmitry Alexandrov <321942 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Wojciech Żuk <wojciech.zuk at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> 2016-08-14 21:00 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Alexandrov <321942 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> Wojciech Żuk <wojciech.zuk at gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> > I have problem, I use Gmail to collect e-mails from my 3 external
> >>> accounts.
> >>> > So I created fo every account in gmail labels with accountname\Inbox
> >>> > accountname\Sent and every of these folders are synchronised two-way
> >>> > without problem.
> >>> > Problem is with deleting email, when I delete message of any on my
> >>> external
> >>> > account using mail client (thunerbird, outlook), after
> synchronisation
> >>> > message is deleted from it's corresponding folder name on Gmail, but
> it
> >>> > stay in Gmail\All Mail.
> >>> > Because on Gmail only messages moved to Gmail\Trash are truly
> deleted.
> >>>
> >>> This is actually configurable on the server side.  But you have to use
> >>> non-free web-interface to be able to set the option: ‘Settings’ →
> >>> ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ [0] → ‘IMAP Access’ → ‘When a message is
> >>> marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder’ =
> >>> ‘Immediately delete the message forever’.
> >>>
> >>> If you open ‘basic HTML’ interface that does not require non-free
> >>> Javascript, you will not see that option (as well as many others) in
> >>> settings dialog at all, as though it never existed.
> >>>
> >>> [0] https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop
> >>>
> >> OK I've configured this option on GMAIL, but unfortunately it didn't
> help,
> >> deleted message from mail client is deleted from gmail imap folder but
> >> stays in Gmail\All Mail.
> >
> > Hmm...  Works for me.
> >
> > I only might suggest you to double check that you do not synchronize
> > your ‘[Gmail]/All mail’.
> >
> > (I believe you do not expect that a letter that you removed from one
> > local folder (e. g. ‘INBOX’) but kept in another (e. g. ‘[Gmail]/All
> > mail’) should magically disappear from all of them — I would say that
> > such a behaviour is heavily broken.)
>
> I have to clarify myself — just not to have a local synchonized copy of
> ‘[Gmail]/All mail’ is not enough (as Googlemail server, of course, have
> no idea how you had configured your ‘offlineimap’ client); you have
> disable IMAP access to it on server side: ‘Settings’ → ‘Labels’ [0] →
> ‘System labels’ → ‘All mail’ → ‘Show in IMAP’ = unchecked.  Then it
> would no longer acts as a regular folder.
>
> [0] https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/labels
>
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