Re: Trash vs. [Imap]/Trash vs. Deleted on device

[jl]

MD does not create folders unless you tell it to create folders. These folders you show are coming from another app or that is how they were set up in gmail. 

On Monday, July 9, 2012 11:39:24 AM UTC-4, bh wrote:

The gist of it is that I would like to have ALL folders on my phone sync up to their respective counterparts on gmail. Assistance appreciated!

Somehow, I am seeing the following newly-created folders on gmail, after setting up MailDroid:

• [Imap]/Archive
• [Imap]/Drafts
  
• [Imap]/Sent
  
• [Imap]/Trash

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[Imap]/Archive

How and why is this created in the first place? There's not even an "archive" button anywhere in MailDroid that I can find. I'm at a complete loss here... Help!

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[Imap]/Drafts

MailDroid crashed while I was composing an email this morning, and I couldn't locate the drafts at all. I thought it'd be in either the Drafts folder on gmail.com and in MailDroid (which I presume to be the same folder), but it's not there. Then I looked in [Imap]/Drafts on gmail.com and also in [Gmail]/Drafts in MailDroid, and it wasn't there either. Then I found it in the "Drafts on device" folder in MailDroid. 

As far as I can tell, there are no settings inside the Accounts Preferences to determine where drafts go. The email client I've been using for the past 3 years on webOS and also on iOS both sync the draft folder on the phone with the draft folder on gmail.com. How do I get this same behavior with MailDroid?

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[Imap]/Sent

With the setup in account preferences. All my sent mail sync up to the respective Sent folder on gmail.com. But still, I'm not sure why an [Imap]/Sent folder was created in the first place.

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[Imap]/Trash

In the account preferences screen, I am prompted to select either a "Trash" folder or a [Gmail] > Trash folder. Which one am I suppose to choose? 

1. Does "Trash" map to the "Trash folder on gmail?
   
2. Does [Gmail] > Trash map to [Imap]/Trash?

[jl]

draft sync is actually being worked on now ;-)

On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:03:51 PM UTC-4, Rick Jones wrote:

You can't do anything about folders appearing under [Gmail] - that's how the Gmail server presents them to IMAP clients. It's where you'll find the Starred folder BTW. I use other IMAP clients with Gmail and it's the same with all.

You can change Maildroid's settings so that sent mail, trash & spam are stored in their respective Gmail folders, which makes things more consistent.

However, there seems no option in Maildroid to save drafts in an IMAP folder, they're always stored locally. I would really like to be able to allocate an IMAP folder for this too. I access my email from various devices, and sometimes I'll start a message on one device, leave it as a draft, and finish it on another. You can't do this with Maildroid, which is annoying. :-(

I would actually like a Maildroid option to completely disable and hide all local "on device" folders, except for the Outbox, because for the reasons above, I don't want anything stored locally on the device (unless it's an automatically cached copy of what's on the server).

Rick

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:43:19 PM UTC+1, bh wrote:

Or, a better question would be... How do I get the Starred, Drafts, Sent, Trash folders from gmail to appear AND sync correctly in MailDroid? Right now it's basically in an unusable state because:

1. my draft emails in MailDroid don't sync to my gmail.com drafts folder
2. my trashed emails on MailDroid don't show up in my trash folder on gmail.com
   
3. my Starred folder on gmail.com doesn't show up in MailDroid
4. my Sent emails folder at least shows up on MailDroid, but under the [Gmail] folder instead of on the top level like other folders.

In my gmail.com settings (in the Labels tab), all of the above folders are set to "Show" and "show in IMAP." Furthermore, I've never changed any of these settings for the past 6 years that I've been using mobile email with gmail, and this is the first time I'm encountering these weird synching issues. Does MailDroid do something differently? And if so, I just need to know what the settings are to get mobile email working.