When searching for mail in Mail.app with a Gmail account, every instance of the mail shows up with every Gmail label, especially in the Bin label, since Apple mail autosaves drafts as you go along, there can be 50 instances of a single mail just in the Bin folder. This makes searching impossible. So I'm trying to turn off those labels in Gmail but no success so far. I have disabled "Show in IMAP" option in the Gmail label settings for all those labels then deleted all the cached items in ~/Library/Mail/V2 and restarted Mail.app but that didn't do the trick.

I really messed up. My main email account is a Gmail instance operated by my University as a benefit for alumni. In the process of cleaning out the 20,000 mail message "Archived" into the "All Mail" folder by my various iOS devices I ended up deleting the mail from my "Sent Mail" mailbox and all the old mail I still had in my INBOX. I've already contacted my University email team asking if they can restore deleted email but I'm not holding my breath. What I have now is an iPhone connected to this same Gmail account that has a cached copy of both the INBOX and the "Sent Mail" from before I messed up. So I put it in AirPlane mode and launched Mail. Sure enough the messages are there and not just the headers, every message I clicked on had the full text, but probably not the attachments. As soon as I take this phone out of Airplane mode and connect to the server things will sync and the messages will go poof! I watched it happen on my iPad. So I'm trying to copy the 200-300 messages in these two mailboxes to a safe location so that I can then reconnect to the server and then restore (re-copy) them to their rightful home. The problem is that with the phone in Airplane mode it'll let me edit the mailbox, select all the messages and then move them to another email account/mailbox, but nothing actually happens because the phone is in Airplane mode (offline). I've tried turning off mail for the problem account and then turning off airplane mode to allow my other email accounts back online thinking they may sync the offline move. That doesn't happen and when I do that iOS hides the mailboxes for the problematic and now disabled mail account. So I can't move the messages in that mode, since I can't see them. Is there some way to export the mail or mailboxes to local storage on the iPhone such that I could then get things back online and then re-import them? Is there utility or application that I could use that might help? Keep in mind, the problem gmail account cannot touch the network or communicate with the Gmail server or the messages I'm trying to save go poof.

I have an iPhone with the latest iOS. If I give Siri the command "Read Text Messages", Siri will start reading the unread texet messages, from most recent to oldest. Is there a similar voice command to have unread Gmail Primary Inbox emails read? I have the Gmail app installed but so far the only way I have figured out how to read emails is to navigate to each individual one and execute the two-finger down gesture.

I recently bought a new MacBook Pro, and set up Mac Mail with my Gmail accounts. At first, when the mail was being imported, the labels for my emails listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser appeared. Then, Mac ran an update for 10.15 (Catalina), and all of the labels for my emails listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser ***disappeared***. I've ensured that the 'Show in IMAP' checkbox is ticked next to all of the labels I wish to see as folders in Apple Mail. It shows the mailbox but not the labels for the messages listed in the list preview section of the Inbox / message browser. Any ideas on how to fix this? I've contacted Apple support, but they haven't provided any guidance.

Mail program 16.0, on Sequoia 15.5, 16" Mac Book Pro Apple chip M3 Max I have emails that come to my Mac Mail program via @iCloud.com email account. I also have in the same mail app a few Gmail imap accounts. Sometimes id like to forward an @iCloud.com email to a person using a gmail account - which im told by apple tech support im suppose to be able to do & have done previously with no issues - until lately. Not sure when the problem started. I'll select the @iCloud.com email to forward, click forward, change the " from account " to a gmail account, compose and send the email. The problem is that the emails are not sent using the selected gmail account , but are being sent by apple mail and is using my Apple ID - which I do not want to be used or made public. Id like the email to be forwarded using the selected gmail account. How can I figure out what causing this unexpected behavior & how can I make the forwarded emails be sent from the selected gmail account and not my Apple ID account? To add to the frustration & curiosity, when I try the above send procedure using apple mail & forwarding with gmail , it works as expected on all my iOS devices - iPhone & iPad. Ive checked the gmail accounts on my MacBook Pro to make sure the smtp's are correct and they all show gmail credentials. Ive also removed & re-added the gmail accounts with no change in behavior. I dont know what else to try / check. Help appreciated. Attached is a screen shot of the drop down menu I use to select gmail account when composing the forwarding email. Thank you.

My iPhone has iOS 16.1. In the standard Mail app I use my Gmail account as my primary / only mail account. When I send email from this account it doesn't get stored in Gmail's Sent folder, but it does when sending from the Gmail web interface. How do I fix this so that the Mail app will store sent mail in the Sent folder? As best I can tell no copy is stored anywhere when I send from my iPhone. Update: Sounds like the answer is Mailbox Behaviors > Sent Mailbox but on my phone this option doesn't exist. See the image. Anyone know what option in the phone or Gmail web site addresses this? Here are my SMTP settings:

Can I use Mac Mail.app as a searchable archive of emails stored locally? How can I set this up? I use Gmail as my primary email and interface. I'm out of space. I have mac Mail.app linked with Gmail, so all my messages are there but I don't use that as an interface. I want to archive the messages in Mac Mail as one or multiple year files in a way that they remain searchable and then remove them from Google to free up space, without removing them from my Mac Mail archives. In the event I needed to search a message from say 2010, I'd like to be able to open up Mac Mail and search there if it is no longer on the Gmail server. How would you set this up please? Sincere thanks for any ideas.

I use the Mail.app to access my multiple email accounts on my MBP and store some of the messages locally so that it doesn't end up stored forever online. The thing is, I feel like moving a message from my Inbox to a local folder (i.e. "On my Mac") works for all accounts except Gmail. Whenever I move a message from my Inbox to a local folder (either by drag-and-drop or with a rule in Mail.app), I discovered that the email is still in Gmail. It just isn't in the Inbox anymore, I have to go to "All Mail" to see it. Is there a way to erase the message from the server as soon as it is stored locally? (or even with some delay like with deleted messages) Otherwise, it kind of defeats the purpose of all this... *I discovered that more than 1,000 emails are still stored online while I stored them all on my mac...*

I'm using the outlook email client on my MacBook to access my Gmail inbox. I've already set it up as an IMAP account. However, when I delete or move an email on my Mac it doesn't automatically sync the changes on the Gmail server. And when I right-click on my client Gmail inbox folder and select repair, it complains that there are changes made locally on my client that have not been synced to the Gmail server. When I right-click on my inbox on the client to do synchronize now, it says it's already synchronized, but it isn't. Does anyone know what's happening? Thank you very much.

.ics attached can be viewed in Gmail app, but there are no button to add it to Apple Calendar. Gmail image: In Mail app the window looks same but has buttons to add the event: Also there is no option to share the attachment into the Calendar directly. I see that Gmail app parsed the event info, but even with Google Calendar installed I can not do anything with it. I have these options in Gmail app on Android. Why is that and is there another easy option to import this event without Apple Mail? It's Google who did not code this feature or Apple's restriction? Edit: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251135443 no answer to "why".

One of our managers has a huge Gmail mailbox, ~400GB. They started it when it was more human-sized, managed with Apple Mail. Growing over time wasn't apparently a problem for a 2021 MBP with 32GB of RAM. Now they had to change the computer and we didn't have the chance to migrate the profile on the new device, so we had to start a new sync from scratch. This proved to be a nightmare! Gmail is enforcing an IMAP hourly (or daily) data transfer limit of ~1.5GB. This makes it impossible to feed Mail from IMAP directly. We did a Google Takeout of the mailbox, and we now have this multi-Gigabyte Mbox file. Trying to import it in Mail hangs it, reaching ~95GB of consumed RAM (out of the 48 physically available). So I was wondering if there's some other way to load this file directly in Mail without passing through the import. Maybe placing the file (original or converted) into Mail data dir, and letting it reindex later. If this is not possible, is there any other way to work with this Mbox file? thanks

I have MSMTP running flawlessly on four Raspberry Pies. I use it to send email from shell scripts. It works fine as a SMTP client. I installed MSMTP and mailutils on an M1 iMac via MacPorts. I configured MSMTP as follows using the information here: msmtp_gmail_setup /etc/mail.rc:

set append dot save ask crt
ignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path Via
set sendmail=/opt/local/bin/msmtp

The only thing I added was the "set sendmail" line. .msmtprc looks like this:

# Generics
defaults
auth           on
tls            on
# tls_starttls   on
# following is different from ssmtp:
# tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
# user specific log location, otherwise use /var/log/msmtp.log, however,
# this will create an access violation if you are user pi, and have not changes the access
rights

tls_fingerprint 7D:8B:CD:37

logfile  ~/.msmtp.log

# my  specifics
account        gmail
auth           plain
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           me@gmail.com
user           me
password       my_password

# Default
account default : gmail

If I run the mail command on the command line it lets me address and compose a message, but I get the following error:

msmtp: no recipients found
Sending data to /opt/local/bin/msmtp failed: Process exited with a non-zero status
cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status

There are no entries in ~/.msmtp.log What have I done wrong here?

I use Notes on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro. Of late, the gmail syncing has been unreliable. I want to move all my gmails notes to the iCloud folder. There doesn't seem to be a way to 'move' a note, apart from deleting and recreating it. My question is: **How can I move my notes from one folder (gmail) to another (iCloud)?**

I wanted to give Apple Mail a try on my iPhone. Up until now I've used Spark. The main problem I've encountered is that Apple Mail has no idea of any email addresses that aren't explicitly in my contacts. This is a problem if I want to write an email to someone. When I compose a new message, Spark will pull all and any email addresses that have in any way been used in prior email messages (those sent to me or those I sent), even if those email addresses aren't in my Apple contacts, and suggest those email addresses to me so I don't have to type the entire address in. Is there a way to import this "knowledge" into Apple Mail? It's a bit of a deal breaker, as I find I'm having to go back to Spark to get the email address and then back to Apple Mail to send a message. One other thing: Apple Mail is downloading ALL my old messages over many accounts. This is the reason I waited so long to try using it -- I didn't want, say, 10 years of old messages over several accounts taking up space on my phone. The size, however, seems to be minimal, so I'm giving it a try. However no matter how many times I select all the old messages in all accounts (the main heading) and say to mark them as read, Apple Mail says I still have hundreds or thousands of unread messages. I have done this over and over in the last day but it always seems there are unread messages. Is this because Apple Mail is still downloading old messages and at some point it will stop and I can then just mark everything as read? (I know I can go to each Gmail account and mark them as read there, but that is somewhat time-consuming -- the nice thing about Apple Mail is that it lets you interact with multiple accounts at once).

I have Safari set as my "Browser" in "Default Apps" in Gmail.app's "Settings". When I open a link in Gmail, it opens an internal browser instead of the Safari.app. How can I configure the links to open in the Safari.app itself where I'm already signed into various services etc? Gmail.app "Settings" does not have any options related to this. When setting the "Default Apps > Browser" to Chrome, it opens Chrome.app as desired - but I want to use Safari.app.

I added my logo in Gmail signature like so: it renders perfectly crystal clear, before sent, and after arrived on the other end. I send it to myself and opened it on my MacBook, it looks perfect as is. See below: Then I copied that ***exact*** signature to **Mail > Preferences**, save it, quit **Mail** App, and tried to send it out. It blows up so huge... How do I **solve** this issue? does anyone else face this issue ? ____ I've tried to resize that logo to 100 x 50 px, but it makes my image very **pixelated**. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I recently bought an iPhone and tried logging in with my existing Apple account, which I created a long time ago. When I checked the "Sign-In and Security" section, I noticed that my account had a primary email ID and also an unfamiliar iCloud email address (xxxxx@icloud.com). I have no idea how that iCloud email got linked to my account, as I never created it. I contacted Apple Support about this, and they mentioned that Apple cannot delete the iCloud email. This has made me feel like my account might be compromised. Additionally, I asked Apple Support if they could remove my primary Apple ID (which is a Gmail address) so that I can create a new Apple account with the same Gmail address. I'm concerned about the security of my account and don't want any unknown Apple ID associated with it. Can someone kindly help me resolve this issue?

I get digests and other things via email (into my GMail account) once or twice a week. On my desktop (M2 Pro Mac Mini, Sonoma 14.7), I have Mail.app (Version 16.0 (3776.700.51.11.1)) setup with the GMail account, and it syncs emails like normal. But in the last week or so, it's started coloring every single mail gold in the Inbox view. A little bit of searching showed that that was Mail marking the message as potential junk, but I don't have junk mail filtering turned on in the settings. I can fix it by moving the messages to Junk and then back to the Inbox, but that sucks. How do I get Mail.app to stop assuming everything is junk?

I added a Gmail account to my iPhone, but it receives emails too slowly. I decided to try an experiment: 1. I plugged my phone into a charger and connected it to wifi. I turned it off, then turned it on and left it waiting on the homescreen, ready to tap it if it's about to sleep again. 2. I used gmail.com to send myself an email. I started a stopwatch after it confirmed it was sent. I checked how long it took for Mail.app on my Mac to receive the email, and I also checked how long it took for Mail on my iPhone to receive the email. I did this three times. My Mac received the email in 5 or fewer seconds every time (5s, 3s, 3s). My iPhone... after waiting for 7 minutes and the mail still hadn't arrived, I decided to stop wasting my time. After opening the Mail app, it finally refreshed itself, and pulled the new email. After opening Mail for the first time, subsequent emails (as long as the phone stays turned on for the whole period in-between) are received fast, in 5-20 seconds. The phone is charging and connected to Wi-Fi. In Settings > Mail > Accounts > Fetch New Data on my iPhone, Fetch Automatically is already selected. Gmail is using Fetch (it can only use Fetch or Manual). How can I make the iPhone receive new emails faster, even if it is sleeping or has just been sleeping?

If I use my macOS Mail.app to send emails from myself to myself (from a gmail account to the same account), they show up in macOS, they show up on gmail.com, but they do not show up in my iPhone's Mail app. They can't be found in the Sent nor Inbox folders on the iPhone (they are in both these places on every other mail client). The iPhone still receives all other emails. The iPhone can receive self-emails if I use gmail.com or the iPhone itself to send them. What's causing the problem here? Why don't emails sent from my Mac show up on my iPhone?