Deletion of Googlemail via IMAP

[Dave Eade]

Hi,
I've got a Googlemail or Gmail account, and I use Outlook to send & recieve
mail - I've got it set up as an IMAP and everything works fine...

...apart from when I want to delete an email in Outlook.

You may know that Gmail works on the principal of views and lables, the
inbox is just a view of all the mail with the "label" "inbox".

When I delete an email using Outlook, all it does is remove the "inbox"
label - it doesn't actually delete the mail.

This means that every so ofter I have to fo into the Googlemail account and
manuallt delete all the mails from the "all mail" list that I don't want to
keep.

Is there any setting in outlook or the Gamil IMAP config that I can set, so
that when I tell Outlook to delete, it tells Gmail to "delete" not "remove
label".

Thanks

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Even if you click edit, purge?

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[Dave Eade]

Where am I clicking "edit" "purge" ?

 

[Gene]

FYI I don't have an answer for you but...

I just installed gmail today and set it up in Outlook. In outlook I clicked
on the gmail email in the outlook gmail inbox and then clicked delete X and
it moved the email to the "all mail" folder of gmail that is displayed in
outlook.

So it seems to be working as it should.

 

[Dave Eade]

Gene,
The "all mail" folder is just that - it's every single mail that you've got
[ except I think Spam ].
In Gmail, when you delete a mail - it deletes it for good.
In Outlook when you delete a mail - it just removes it from the inbox.

In about a years time when you "search" for a specifc mail in Outlook, and
you get get a whole list of mails back which you thought you'd deleted you'll
see my problem.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

On the Edit menu - look for Purge folder.

If you don't see it, let us know the version (and don't trim the replies so
others can follow the thread).

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[Dave Eade]

It's 2007, although I'm not at home right now so I can't try it out.
I'll do it later and let you know if it works.

Thanks

On the Edit menu - look for Purge folder.

If you don't see it, let us know the version (and don't trim the replies so
others can follow the thread).

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Where am I clicking "edit" "purge" ?

 

[Gene]

Try to set up in gmail as POP rather than IMAP. If I remember correctly you
have the option of selecting the email to delete from gmail when you delete
it in outlook. let me know.
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Gene

Gene,
The "all mail" folder is just that - it's every single mail that you've got
[ except I think Spam ].
In Gmail, when you delete a mail - it deletes it for good.
In Outlook when you delete a mail - it just removes it from the inbox.

In about a years time when you "search" for a specifc mail in Outlook, and
you get get a whole list of mails back which you thought you'd deleted you'll
see my problem.

FYI I don't have an answer for you but...

I just installed gmail today and set it up in Outlook. In outlook I clicked
on the gmail email in the outlook gmail inbox and then clicked delete X and
it moved the email to the "all mail" folder of gmail that is displayed in
outlook.

So it seems to be working as it should.