gmail question

[bazookaman]

what determines what gmail saves in the sent or trash? I've gone to retrieve something i KNOW I deleted in my browser and it is not there. Same with sent. I've sent dozens of email from my browser throughout the day and when i got to the sent items, there's maybe 4 or 5. And i cannot seem to make sense of how or why it decided to keep what it does and discard the rest.

[clay]

It should all be kept (sent stuff, that is). Especially if you're doing everything in the browser. If you were doing stuff in a Mail client, there could be settings there that may not be saving everything to the server, but if you're doing it in the browser, it should save everything until you delete it. Trash should be basically the same, although messages *may* get deleted automatically after 30 days (or some other amount, not sure exactly on this one). Can you try sending some test messages now and see how they behave? Also, try deleting some, too. Check the sent and trash folders immediately upon doing so. Maybe try opening another browser to make sure you're not just seeing a locally cached version of your account...

[bazookaman]

I'll play around with that. And yes. I do use Mail as well. But I use it as a POP account. And if it were going to delete trash and sent items off the server, it seems like it would be an all or nothing type thing. In other words, If I send 10 emails to A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and then check my sent items folder I may "see" A, C, E, G, H. There seems to be no rhyme or reason and it's done this as far back as I can remember.

[clay]

that's odd. My guess is that there's something going on preference-related in Mail related to downloading messages from the server/how long it maintains copies of messages on your computer vs. on the gmail server.

I'm curious about your reasons for choosing POP over IMAP in Mail...if you care to share, I'd like to hear about that. I don't know a ton about POP, but I've had zero issues with my gmail IMAP account between the browser, my computer in Mail, and my ipad.

[bazookaman]

clay wrote:
that's odd. My guess is that there's something going on preference-related in Mail related to downloading messages from the server/how long it maintains copies of messages on your computer vs. on the gmail server.

I'm curious about your reasons for choosing POP over IMAP in Mail...if you care to share, I'd like to hear about that. I don't know a ton about POP, but I've had zero issues with my gmail IMAP account between the browser, my computer in Mail, and my ipad.

I set it up as POP before IMAP was all the rage. Now that it's already set up, it would be quite the undertaking to switch it over. So I just leave it as is.

[clay]

It shouldn't be too difficult to switch to IMAP, and I would think the benefits to switching (namely, having all your email synced between all devices on which you view your email) would far outweigh the temporary hassle during the switchover.

[tenders]

I would guess that the setup being POP is part of the problem. I haven't used POP in a long time but I remember being mystified about the locations that had and did not have copies of emails in and out.