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Mail in Lion

  • 08-08-2011 09:37PM
    #1
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    This one is wrecking my head!

    I have Lion installed and have a Gmail account set up in Mail 5.0.

    My issue is that all mail that is "new" to my mac comes up as unread, even though I have read the item on my iPhone or iPad. They don't have this issue. If I read a new mail on the iPhone then it doesn't come up as unread on the iPad and vice versa.

    But on the mac everything is unread. Sick of selecting all and marking as read each time I go to use the mac!!

    Any one find this annoying and/or is there a solution?

    Ta


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Is the account set up as POP or IMAP?


  • #3
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    POP!

    How do I change this?

    Thanks


  • #4
    ashleey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭ashleey


    Delete the account and start again. It should only take a minute. Mail preferences accounts. Highlight current gmail and click the little minus. Then hit the plus and follow instructions


  • #5
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    ashleey wrote: »
    Delete the account and start again. It should only take a minute. Mail preferences accounts. Highlight current gmail and click the little minus. Then hit the plus and follow instructions

    Careful here. POP normally downloads mail from the server, so if you delete it locally you will no longer have these mails. Deleting from the server is the default option in Gmail when accessing via POP. Check your gmail account first to make sure that your POP client hasn't downloaded the mails and removed them from the server.


  • #6
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Thanks guys. Deleting the account from Mail app didn't delete mail from server and new account created as imap.


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  • #7
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    Thanks guys. Deleting the account from Mail app didn't delete mail from server and new account created as imap.
    Correct procedure I'd imagine would be to take the original account offline first rather than deleting it. Then create the new IMAP version (make sure it's enabled on gmail).
    That way, any mails that didn't come across into the new account could be dragged over manually before you delete the old account.


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