I phone/outlook & googlemail help

[Simon Pieman]

Well I just set it up and it works fine for me. After you delete an email in outlook you have to go to the edit menu and select 'purge deleted messages' then they are removed from gmail.

When I create a new folder and move messages to it within Outlook, it copies the same thing in gmail.

Dunno what the problem is then.

[Simon Pieman]

Luci it may be an idea to delete the account from your Outlook and start again. If you follow the settings from the link it should work perfectly.

Sort out Outlook first and deal with the iPhone afterward.

[Luci]

Ive been mucking about with it and got it working!  tried deleting from each port (phone, outlook and gmail) and it deletes from all the others respectively at the same time and has created my subfolders too!  woooooooooooo!

Now, I can't import my contacts into the calendar as it cant find my bloody excel document!

[Samdy Gray]

I'd just like to say I use GoogleMail on my iPhone with no problems at all I don't sync with Outlook though, much easier to just use Gmail online - it has all the same features as Outlook.

[Simon Pieman]

After playing around in Outlook a bit I see what Jonny meant. The best way to delete items through outlook is to move them to the gmail 'bin' folder, then delete the messages in there.

Otherwise they get removed from the inbox in gmail but not from the 'all mail' folder so you'll eventually have loads of old emails clogging it up.

Thunderbird is better because you can tell it where to delete emails to (the bin folder) but Outlook doesn't give you this option. Thunderbird is free and is from the people who bought you Firefox.

[jonny72]

Google is the problem as they came up with the crap idea of not actually deleting emails when you delete them abc using it as a selling point. Not necessarily a bad idea but no other mail client works like that and it's just confusing.

It's all about getting a setup you're happy with that works for you. Mine is a bit complicated as I've got 6 mail accounts, use my iPhone and Mac Mail for day to day stuff then archive everything in Mac Mail.

Google really are gay for not deleting emails properly.

[Barry Scott]

Well we all know Google are cunts. Information is power and all that. Besides email is soon to be dead. There's a new standard in communication coming town, Google Wave. That's something special.

Incidentally a while back i moved from Outlook to Thunderbird. It's quite amusing how much better a free product is over a supposed premium one. Especially when you add things like lightening and what not.