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More options Jul 24, 3:55 am

From: bkennelly

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:55:29 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 3:55 am

Subject: Re: using "trash" to delete messages for iPhone 1.1.3

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It depends. If you try to empty the "trash" while it is pointed at All
Mail, it could be bad.
Did you try the instructions here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77702

Specifically, do not let the iPhone set up the account automatically.

On Jul 23, 11:58 am, lindyboi wrote:

> Just got a new iPhone, w00t!

> I used the "gmail" account type to set up my personal account.

> I want to configure gmail to archive messages when I click the "trash"
> icon.

> According to this page, I should set the trash folder to my iPhone
> local "Trash"http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892#

> Specifically: "Do NOT save deleted messages on the server. Messages
> that are deleted from an IMAP folder (except for those in [Gmail]/Spam
> or [Gmail]/Trash) only have that label removed and still exist in All
> Mail. Hence, your client doesn't need to store an extra copy of a
> deleted message."

> however when I use this configuration, messages are moved to the Trash
> in my gmail account (and no longer appear in all mail)

> Since the proposed settings don't work, I am changing the trash
> setting to use the "All Mail" folder to try to resolve this. Should I
> expect any problems?

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