Just a couple of questions

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Wendy have a lemon

Hi,

I have a couple of questions. The first one is a really strange one. I
have three Web based e-mail accounts. One of them is a good 'Google Mail'
account. It is different to the other two accounts in the way that it does
not have a 'Deleted Items Folder' as such.
What the account contains is:

'Google Mail'
'All Mail'
'Drafts'
'Sent items'
'Spam'
'Starred'
'Trash'

Recently I signed up to a Website to receive their news literature in the
form of an e-mail. I have since undersubscribed to the Website so that they
may not send me any more of their newsletter e-mails.

I have three of their e-mails all in the row in the 'All Mail' folder. I
have tried deleting all three of those e-mails and they disappear at first.
When I go to another folder and then come back to the 'All Mail' folder, the
three e-mails are back again. I have tried to get rid of them many times
but every time I go back to this folder, they are come back again.

Does anybody know why? Does anybody know how I can get rid of these e-mails
for good?

The second question I should really know because I have done it before but I
just can't remember how I did it!

All I want to know is how to put all my e-mail accounts complete with their
e-mails as shown on my old computer to a new computer so that when I click
on the 'Mail Icon', it brings up my account as per normal.

I know you can get to your e-mails by clicking Internet Explorer that way
but I want it the way that it is on my old computer. I hope this makes
sense.

Thank you in advance

Wendy
 
You are using the IMAP version of Gmail. Gmail's implementation
of IMAP is unique, and Windows Mail is known to have some
incompatibilities with it. Your best solution for getting rid of the
unwanted emails is to delete them via the web interface at
http://gmail.com. It may take a while before the web server
syncs its new status of those messages with the Windows Mail
client.

I don't really understand your second question. What exactly is
different between your old and new computers with respect to how
they access or display emails?
 
Can you give us more details? What Operating System was
your old computer? What did you used for email? What do
you want to use for email on your new computer? What
email providers did you have on your old computer?
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Okay. My old computer is Windows '98 and the new one is Windows Vista OS
with an option to upgrade to Windows 7.

To simplify, I have one Tiscali Web based email account that I use for
emailing that I want to take over to my new computer. I have another Web
based account which is a Google Mail account which I have mentioned. I
still want this as well on my new computer. I have A Tiscali Broadband
connection.

As I said before, I know I can get to my email accounts through Internet
Explorer on the new computer but I do not want to pick them up this way. On
my old computer, all I need to do is click on the 'envelope icon' and it
will bring up all my mail in front of me without the need to go through
Internet Explorer. This is how I want it on my new computer.

You are using the IMAP version of Gmail. Gmail's implementation
of IMAP is unique, and Windows Mail is known to have some
incompatibilities with it. Your best solution for getting rid of the
unwanted emails is to delete them via the web interface at
http://gmail.com. It may take a while before the web server
syncs its new status of those messages with the Windows Mail
client.
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Is there another version of Gmail then? And if so, what is it?

Would I be better off completely deleting the IMAP account after saving my
e-mails within it and then opening up the other kind of account from Google?
And by opening up this new account from Google, would it stop the problems I
am having now regarding trying to delete e-mails?

Have you also got a URL for this type of Google account?


Wendy
 
Okay, thanks for the information VistaRookie, it is much appreciated.

I just need Gary to come back now and advise me on the IMAP situation.

Wendy
 
Which rock did you crawl out from ?
This is not Yellow Pages where you can make your selection and ask for
appointment.
There are many fully qualified MVPs constantly manning this newsgroup, ready
to help.
You have no less alienated every MVP whose name is not Gary.
I doubt you will receive much help from the rest of the MVPs from now on.
For your sake, I sure hope I am wrong.
t-4-2
 
I did not mean to alienate anybody t-4-2, it's just that Gary was the
initial person who mentioned an IMAP account but any help would be welcome
by anybody.

Wendy
 
Hi again Wendy. I run on California time, so I get up much later
than the other responders. :-)
Gmail's IMAP works slightly better on Windows Live Mail than it does
on Windows Mail; the Windows Live Mail developer team has
promised future improvements in that regard. Windows Live Mail is
actively being improved, unlike Windows Mail which received no
development since July 2006. Although there is no urgent need for
you to switch to Windows Live Mail, but you should do so before
upgrading to Windows 7.
If you have no particular need for IMAP, I recommend you try
Gmail's POP version. Set up instructions for that are here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86383
 
Thank you Gary, that is exactly what I needed to know. I apologise to you
and all the other MVP's out there if I worded one of my previous post's to
sound as if I was just targeting you to answer my question as t-4-2 so
delicately put it.

Just for the record. I appreciate all the help I get from any of the MVP's
in any of these newsgroups. I also appreciate all the help from people who
are not MVP's but who are very helpful.

Is that better t-4-2?

Wendy
 
VistaRookie said:
Wendy,
I tried to come over to see how you had your old computer
setup but your mother said you weren't home. :)

Can you give us more details? What Operating System was
your old computer? What did you used for email? What do
you want to use for email on your new computer? What
email providers did you have on your old computer?

Anything to paint a picture because we can't see your old
computer, nor can we remember how you did it.




--
VistaRookie

10% of my brain lives with me. The other 90% can be found
here:
'*Google*' (http://www.google.com)
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Wendy have a lemon said:
Hi,

I have a couple of questions. The first one is a really strange one. I
have three Web based e-mail accounts. One of them is a good 'Google Mail'
account. It is different to the other two accounts in the way that it
does not have a 'Deleted Items Folder' as such.
What the account contains is:

'Google Mail'
'All Mail'
'Drafts'
'Sent items'
'Spam'
'Starred'
'Trash'

Recently I signed up to a Website to receive their news literature in the
form of an e-mail. I have since undersubscribed to the Website so that
they may not send me any more of their newsletter e-mails.

I have three of their e-mails all in the row in the 'All Mail' folder. I
have tried deleting all three of those e-mails and they disappear at
first. When I go to another folder and then come back to the 'All Mail'
folder, the three e-mails are back again. I have tried to get rid of them
many times but every time I go back to this folder, they are come back
again.

Does anybody know why? Does anybody know how I can get rid of these
e-mails for good?

The second question I should really know because I have done it before but
I just can't remember how I did it!

All I want to know is how to put all my e-mail accounts complete with
their e-mails as shown on my old computer to a new computer so that when I
click on the 'Mail Icon', it brings up my account as per normal.

I know you can get to your e-mails by clicking Internet Explorer that way
but I want it the way that it is on my old computer. I hope this makes
sense.

Thank you in advance

Wendy
Click to expand...
 
You are using the IMAP version of Gmail. Gmail's implementation
of IMAP is unique, and Windows Mail is known to have some
incompatibilities with it. Your best solution for getting rid of the
unwanted emails is to delete them via the web interface at
http://gmail.com. It may take a while before the web server
syncs its new status of those messages with the Windows Mail
client.

I don't really understand your second question. What exactly is
different between your old and new computers with respect to how
they access or display emails?
 
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