Gmail App For Windows
Deandra Schikora
The recent update to the Mail App for Windows 10 (Version 16005.12827.20200.0) has caused numerous problems with the Gmail integration. Sent mails are not appearing in the Sent Mail folder - instead they often appear in the Spam folder; attachments on incoming emails are missing.
The best way to work around this is to remove the Gmail account from the Mail app and then re-add it manually via the Other Account POP/IMAP route using the IMAP settings as described in Gmail help: =en
One other thing you may have to do is change a security setting in Google to allow access to less secure apps. Google now considers the Windows Mail App a less secure app and therefore blocks it from doing some tasks. If you are concerned with this and while we wait for Microsoft to sort this out it might be safest to only use Gmail via a browser using mail.google.com
I deleted my gmail account and recreated it using the manual settings described in your prior solution. No difference, sent mail only is populated when emails sent from browser, not the windows 10 mail app.
Just setting up a new Win 10 laptop and activated the Win10 Mail app for my Gmail account. Noticed that it imported all my Gmail folders I had set up, but it failed to populate those folders with any of the messages that were in them
I suggest you open the mail app. Click on the Gmail account and right-click on the account and select account settings. You need to click on mail change mailbox sync settings and make sure that the email sync option is checked.
Thank you for taking the time to reply with a detailed but simple response. You're recommendation is very generic and simple and was attempted various times to simply delete and reinstall the account. Did you even take a sample gmail account and try your own suggestion before posting it as a possible solution to so many?
This error, where sent items now go to the SPAM folder and the Sent folder is completely empty (when compared to the actual gmail folders using a web browser to administer mail happened during the last update to Windows 10 Version 2004 as this chain suggests since this after this update is when these folders no longer synced correctly.
Your response says nothing about the Version 2004 update and seems like a waste of time for you to post and a waste of time for those of us working on this issue to read and retry the obvious and what was tried before.
@heygbriz I was alerted that someone had posted a reply to your thread. Reminded me that it has been months since I chimed in to point out that the contents of Gmail "labels" do not get populated into their corresponding folders that are set up when you first have the Windows 10 mail app* linked to your Gmail account.
I've also made my own thread on that problem, which no one from Microsoft, nor any insiders such as yourself has responded to. If you are still monitoring this thread, could you give me any suggestions about fixing that problem, or how I can get any help on it?
* btw, isn't anyone else wishing Microsoft would give it real name, so we don't have to keep writing "the Windows 10 mail app"? Imagine if we all had to call Word "the Windows 10 word processing app", or Excel "the Windows 10 spreadsheet app", etc. Why can't MS give it a proper, short name?
Then try open it and if problem persist, then open start and search for feedback and open Feedback Hub app and report this issue. If the issue already exist in Feedback Hub, then upvote it.
@Phil Coldrick I like to think that these companies are beyond petty back-stabbing, but I can't help but this this is retaliation for what Google did to SwiftKey's speech-to-text. I wouldn't want to go down that rabbit hole too far, but I can't help but chuckle a bit..... I've spent the last few months uninstalling the updates to the "Google" App. When it updates, SwiftKey loses its mind. Speech to text gets almost unusable, and the dropdown function when typing that lets you tap a word and select from multiple other options.... stops working completely.
It started early last year, right when Covid was ramping up. I got fed up and changed to Gboard but occasionally if I had some spare time and remembered, I would research it here and there. When I was troubleshooting, I reviewed dozens of threads at the SwiftKey site where people were griping at how lousy MS is for letting SwiftKey get so bad. Many, like me, have used it since the early to mid 20teens. It was awesome, then one day it wasn't. It works. It predicts, But does so horribly.
And there are plenty of threads out there that identify the cause. If you roll back the "updates" to the Google app (not Chrome, Now, Gboard, etc... just "Google", the problem goes away and SwiftKey is again one of the best keyboards out there. But why does it cause that problem? And why does it not do the same to other keyboards?
The MS staff HAD to be aware of the cause and how easy it is to resolve...You just roll back the app's updates. But they never say so. Which is why I didn't use it for nearly a year. But now that I have the solution I have my trusty keyboard back.... but they still don't mention it in the threads where people even now are still complaining. very odd......
I know this sounds real easy but it worked for me. I noticed when it was putting my details of the gmail account I wanted to link to the Mail App that it was just putting the name, and missing the @gmail.com off the rest of the address. I know it shouldn't matter, but when I eventually typed the whole address in manually, then it connected first time and is working fine again.
Hi @Ian_Brearsbrearsian , I always put the whole address but the matter did not change for this. Personally I think it is better to type the whole address too and choose a general connection instead of choosing that the account is a Google one. I wrote several posts in my blog on this topic ... but now at the end I prefer to use Outlook client on my PC.
When I copy paste from eclipse/RAD to outlook all the text colors and code formatting is preserved just as in RAD 7.5 IDE. But when I copy paste the same to gmail, I am left with no colors. Is this a browser shortcoming or operating systems? I do not know a whole lot about how windows clip board behaves? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks !
It's not the cleanest way, but I find that if I copy my code from Visual Studio, and paste it into MS Word, then copy it from Word and into Gmail (Chrome) it stays formatted properly. I'm guessing the reason is because Word, upon pasting, is changing the format to HTML, which Chrome can handle just fine.
I'm trying to do the same thing with Visual Studio 2010 and IE9 (both from MS) and it actually works great. However, it doesn't work with any other browser. I think it's a matter of understanding between the IDE and the browser. The IDE puts data in the clipboard with a specific formatting, and the browser is responsible for understanding it. However, if Outlook worked for you, then maybe IE8/9 works too. Just an idea.
I've linked my gmail account to my Surface. I can use the mail app fine, however one very annoying thing is that the mail app doesn't appear to list all of my gmail contacts despite me telling it to sync contacts. If I try to write an email to someone I have about 10 contacts available locally with email addresses -- despite having hundreds in gmail. I think these are likely from other sources (ie facebook). I see lots of people in my People account, but I don't see any email information on them. When I click "manage" I get brought to the gmail account.
Whats really being looked for is an ability to search the server and then locally cache autocomplete email addresses. Gmail's web app and Windows Phone's mail app does this. Windows Mail in Windows 8 does not.
As for why not all contacts are being downloaded, it appears that windows is downloading all contacts under "My Contacts" in gmail. "Other Contacts" -- containing all the automatically stored contacts does not get synced.
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