Can I make Gmail behave like other imap clients in Apple's iOS email app
April 24, 2019 12:23 PM Subscribe
I access four email accounts through Mail.app on my iPhone. Three of these are standard imap accounts. The fourth one is a Gmail account. For the three imap accounts, swipe left deletes a message and swipe right archives it. For the Gmail account it's the opposite: swipe right deletes a message and swipe left archives it. Help!
The accounts are also different when I'm viewing an email message. The three imap accounts show a trash icon on the bottom of the screen under the message. The Gmail account shows an archive icon on the bottom of the screen.
These differences are driving me crazy. Is there any way I can get Mail.app to treat them the same way, and offer me the same gestures for all of my accounts?
Additional info:
The imap accounts are hosted by Fastmail.
My Gmail imap settings are
"When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted:" => "Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server"
"When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder:" => "Move the message to the Trash"
I generally trash messages much more frequently than I archive them. In this I am like standard imap more than Gmail. (No, I don't need to keep that blast email from Lands End forever, thank you, and I don't want it cluttering up my search results regardless of how cheap storage is these days.)
The accounts are also different when I'm viewing an email message. The three imap accounts show a trash icon on the bottom of the screen under the message. The Gmail account shows an archive icon on the bottom of the screen.
These differences are driving me crazy. Is there any way I can get Mail.app to treat them the same way, and offer me the same gestures for all of my accounts?
Additional info:
The imap accounts are hosted by Fastmail.
My Gmail imap settings are
I generally trash messages much more frequently than I archive them. In this I am like standard imap more than Gmail. (No, I don't need to keep that blast email from Lands End forever, thank you, and I don't want it cluttering up my search results regardless of how cheap storage is these days.)
Response by poster: Yes, Pfardentrott, that did it! Thank you! You have saved me countless moments of annoying cognitive dissonance.
Marking this resolved.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 2:09 PM on April 24, 2019 [2 favorites]
Marking this resolved.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 2:09 PM on April 24, 2019 [2 favorites]
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Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Gmail > Account > Advanced > Under "Move discarded message into:", select "Deleted Mailbox."
posted by Pfardentrott at 12:39 PM on April 24, 2019 [3 favorites]