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Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, the Mail app won't let me permanently save my settings with two gmail accounts. I uncheck the box in 'store draft messages on server' under mailbox behaviours in Preferences and then save. When I look, that box is checked again. I've done this over a million times now.
I don't want that option because I get 100s of draft portions of one email while writing it and it shows up in On My Mac. Sometimes, for no apparent reason the email shows up in 'Draft' even though I had already sent it which is very confusing. I have been trying to figure this out since yesterday and I have removed and then added the gmail accounts (2 of them), did reboots, etc. Nothing works. I don't know where else to look. I have been having all sorts of problems with the Mail app (Gmail accounts being sent from the wrong account out of the blue) ever since I bought my MacBook Pro in Feb/13. I was hoping that these issues would be resolved with the upgrade to Mavericks and would work properly.
It's been so frustrating. I really like the UI of the Mail app and would like to continue using it so I was wondering if I could delete the Mail app and then re-install it? Can I do something in Terminal? I found the answer on another thread. So far it works, but it remains to be seen 😉 1) Quit Mail.app. 2) Log into Gmail in your favorite web browser.
Gmail client for Mac. Since the inception of email, it has grown to become an integral part of our daily life. Unlike the snail mail era, email has made Switching between your accounts in Gmail for Mac is simple with a few clicks. The settings of the application are packed with numerous features that will.
3) Click on the gear menu and select 'Settings'. 4) Click on the 'Labels' tab. 5) Under 'System Labels', next to 'Drafts', click on 'show if unread' and uncheck the 'Show in IMAP' box.
Now disable 'Store draft messages on the server': 6) Launch Mail.app. 7) Select Mail Preferences. 8) Click on the 'Accounts' button in the toolbar. 9) Click once on the account name and then click the 'Mailbox Behaviors' tab. 10) Uncheck the 'Store draft messages on the server' box.
11) Close the window and opt to save your changes when prompted. I found the answer on another thread. So far it works, but it remains to be seen 😉 1) Quit Mail.app. 2) Log into Gmail in your favorite web browser.
3) Click on the gear menu and select 'Settings'. 4) Click on the 'Labels' tab. 5) Under 'System Labels', next to 'Drafts', click on 'show if unread' and uncheck the 'Show in IMAP' box. Now disable 'Store draft messages on the server': 6) Launch Mail.app. 7) Select Mail Preferences. 8) Click on the 'Accounts' button in the toolbar. 9) Click once on the account name and then click the 'Mailbox Behaviors' tab.
10) Uncheck the 'Store draft messages on the server' box. 11) Close the window and opt to save your changes when prompted. This works as long as Gmail checkbox is ticked off from 'Show in IMAP'. As soon as this is switched on again, Apple restore the setting. This is senseless as if I need to keep showing the draft folder to move items I need to save and pass through different computer while composing. Unfortunately the fault is both from Apple and Google.
The latter doesn't seem they have implemented an IMAP protocol that follow the standards, whereas Apple does refuse to follow users instruction reverting setting to what they believe it should be the best. The reality is experienced and non experienced users that suffer the pain of two companies that are fighting against each other. This is blatantly stupid. Apple took a year to release Maverick and nobody from the mail team spent a second looking through the Gmail suggested settings.
To be clear, I don't have anything against saving draft on the server, but because of this protocol discrepancy, when Apple Mail start saving draft they are not overwritten in the folder, but a delete command is sent for the previous draft. As a result of this, by looking at the Gmail message with the official Google app, loads of draft will appear too. There is a trick I found to remove them, but this is annoying as much as seeing all my messages have pending drafts. Hope somebody of these two company decide to fix this issue in a way or another. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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If you’re new to the Mac but something of an iOS veteran, this lesson will be a snap. And it should be, because Apple modeled Mountain Lion’s Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference on the setting of the same name found on today’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. If anything, the Mountain Lion version is actually easier to use because it isn't crammed with additional settings specific to the Contacts, Calendar, and Reminders applications. Much as I love discussing the ins and outs of contacts, events, and reminders, our focus here will be on setting up email accounts on your Mac. Adding a service Launch System Preferences and, in the Internet & Wireless area, click Mail, Contacts & Calendars. If you took advantage of the offer to set up an iCloud account when you first configured your Mac, you’ll see an iCloud entry in the list of accounts on the left side of the resulting window.
To the right of that list is a series of commonly used services, including (in the United States) iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Vimeo, and Flickr. At the very bottom of the list is an an Add Other Account.
Your Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference should look something like this. To use these services, you must first set up an account with them—something that you can’t do within this preference. If, for example, you wish to set up a Gmail account, launch a Web browser (Apple’s Safari is the default) and travel to. Create your Gmail account here, making a note of your username and password. Now that you have an account, let’s set it up. Click the Gmail item in the Mail, Contacts & Calendars list.
A sheet pops down with Name, Email Address, and Password fields. In all likelihood the Name field will be filled in already; if it isn’t, do so. Then, just enter your Gmail address (in the form [email protected]), enter your password, and click Set Up. Adding a Gmail account As long as your Mac is connected to the Internet, it will create the correct settings so that you can use Gmail’s mail, calendars, reminders, messages, and notes features.
You’ll know that its efforts have been successful if a sheet appears that lets you choose which of Gmail’s features to use. If you don’t wish to use all of the features—for example, you’d rather not sync your Gmail calendars and reminders with your Mac’s Calendar and Reminders applications (and I’ll talk about why you might not want to do this when I discuss those specific applications in a later column)—simply uncheck the ones you’d prefer to do without. When you’re done, click Add Account. You’ll see a spinning gear icon next to the enabled features, which indicates that your Mac is syncing Gmail’s data with the appropriate applications on your computer. You will notice as well that your Gmail account now appears in the list of configured accounts. If you’d like to use a different name for your account, select it, click the Details button to the right, and in the sheet that appears, enter a new name in the Description field and click OK.
The advantages of autoconfiguration So what exactly has happened here? If you’ve chosen to synchronize your email with Google, go ahead and launch the Mail application, which you’ll find in the Dock. You have my permission to gasp when you see that a Gmail account now appears in Mail’s list of accounts. And that’s the beauty of the Mail, Contacts & Calendars system preference. In the old days, you not only had to know a load of arcane settings (details such as email server addresses and ports, which I’ll get to in a bit) but you also needed to configure multiple applications to put everything together. Now, in most cases, the Mac OS automatically takes care of those arcane settings and configures them in this single system preference. Adding even more accounts works much the same way: Click the plus button below the list of accounts, click a service, and fill in the appropriate fields.
Among the preconfigured services, a Microsoft Exchange account requires more steps than the others. In addition to knowing your username and password, you must also know the server address for your account. Since most Exchange accounts are created for business users, chances are good that the person who set you up with that account (someone working in the IT department, for example) can provide you with that information.
About the other services While looking through the list of services, you’ll notice that some are completely unrelated to mail, contacts, and calendars. Facebook and Twitter are for social networking, of course, and Flickr and Vimeo help you share pictures and video, respectively. So what are they doing here?
Mostly it’s about tidiness. Sure, Apple could have added more preference panes to the System Preferences window and called them Social Networking and Media Sharing.
But really, Mail, Contacts & Calendars is about the accounts you have—services you’ve registered with for which you need a username and password. When you add Facebook and Twitter accounts, you have the ability to use those services within certain applications and the Notifications pane; likewise with Flickr and Vimeo.
If you choose to share an image or video, adding Flickr and Vimeo makes the task easier since you can share that media directly from within a supported application.
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