On Fri 25 Jun 2021 at 19:29:31 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > <snipped> > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the "delete" request when collecting from > IMAP because in my case they certainly go from INBOX but are retained in ALL > MAIL.
I can only speak of POP3 and the same happens with that. It's a feature, and not a bad one, IMO. The same sort of archiving could be done here with my received mail and a procmail rule. Anyway, on the Settings page at Gmail I altered the "When messages are accessed with POP" option to have "delete Gmail's copy". Tested. No copy in All Mail now. Perhaps IMAP works the same way. -- Brian.
