In Gmails settings, under the Forwarding and POPIMAP tab, change the setting When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted to Auto-Expunge off.

And Googles Web-based Gmail is also pretty goodbut how do you combine the two in just the right way so as to get the best of both.

This will not only let Mail check your Gmail messages, but also keep everything in sync between your devices and the Web.

About halfway down the page in the IMAP Access section, select Enable IMAP.

Instead of filing messages into single folders, as Mail and most other clients do, Gmail lets you tag email messages with multiple words, or labels, just as you can with photos on Flickr.

To ensure a smooth multidevice ride, stay in Gmails settings and click the Labels tab.

Here, you make labels invisible to apps that cant deal with them, such as Mail on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Two such labels are Chats and Important, so in the Labels tab, ensure that the Show in IMAP checkbox is disabled for them.

However, unlike previous advice, make sure All Mail is enabled.

Mail now hides the copies, so you wont be bothered by them, but the copies do take up disk space.

You can still do that if you want, but OS X now understands more about your Google Accountthat it includes not only Gmail but also other services.

So I recommend instead opening System Preferences and selecting Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Yep, this deja vu is brought to you by iOS.).

Google Mail Settings Mail Plus Button In

To add your Google Account here, click the plus button in the lower left, then click Gmail in the list of new account options on the right.

Whether youre using a regular gmail account or Google Apps to run your Gmail through your domain (so your address looks like youdavidchartier.com ), add your name, email address, and password on the sheet that appears, and click Set Up.

As of this writing, those include email, calendar, Messages (via the Google Talk services), and Notes.

Google Mail Settings Mail Free To Disable

All will be checked by default, so feel free to disable any you dont want.

Step 4: Set up Mail Apple has made some strides when it comes to making Mail behave better with Gmail, but this working relationship still has a few catches.

After all, you never know if that rainy day will come next month or four years from now, and theres no harm in keeping tiny emails around in this age of ever-expanding storage space.

As of OS X 10.7 and 10.8, you might notice a new Message Archive option in Mails menu.

You can also use View Customize Toolbar to add an Archive button to the toolbars of Mails main window and individual message viewer windows.

Unfortunately, after two years and a number of bug reports filed with Apple, that button still doesnt work properly with Gmail.

This does not follow Gmails behavior on the Web of moving messages to All Mail, which means that messages archived through Mail wont be stored in the place Gmail understands.

But if you dosay, while on vacation away from your devices or using a different work computersome of Gmails built-in archive and search features wont know to look in the Archive folder that Mail created.

Google Mail Settings For Mac Mail