Questions tagged [gmail-imap]

IMAP is the Internet Message Access Protocol, and is often used when connecting to a Gmail account from a third party application.

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Can the Windows 8 Mail app show Gmail's priority inbox?

I can't live without Gmail Priority Inbox, which right now means I can't live with the Mail app in Windows 8. Priority inbox essentially filters out messages that aren't important, and displays them ...
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Thunderbird doesn't receive IMAP-PUSH mails from googlemail

I noticed for a while now that my thunderbird client is not receiving the mails "immediately" anymore, but has to regularly synchronize my IMAP folders with googlemail. I am also using Trillian ...
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Quickstep in Outlook 2013 Gmail IMAP account doesn't execute "mark as read" instruction

I am using Office 2013, and I have a Gmail account set up via IMAP. I have created an "Archive" quickstep in Outlook with 2 instructions: mark item as read move to folder "All Mail" If I execute ...
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gmail, IMAP, Thunderbird: Why is email delivered to All Mail, but not Inbox?

Note: This Q is specific to gmail, Thunderbird and IMAP. (It is similar to, but more specific than, this older, and more general question, about gmail access, but with an unspecified email tool and ...
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Jenkins failing to send emails on build failures BUT sending emails in 'Test email recepient' in Configure System

Trying to configure Jenkins to send emails after builds. Had a previous issue with gmail authentication; the good folk on Stack Exchange helped be get the 'Test email recipient' in System ...
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Transfer multiple emails from an IMAP server to GMail?

Is there a good way of transfering an IMAP directory structure and their emails to GMail? (imap) I moved from my own IMAP server to Google Apps Business earlier this week and I'd need to transfer a ...
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IMAP syncronisation problems with google apps (GMail), iPhone and Apple Mail (messages only delivered to one device)

We have been successfully using Google Apps for our email in my office for some time now but this week one (just one) of my users has developed a problem I cannot solve. As far as I can see, no ...
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Thunderbird with millions of gmail emails

I just tried using thunderbird hooked up to my gmail account using imap, which has at least 5 million emails in the account. Thunderbird is basically unresponsive, which isn't a huge surprise. I tried ...
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Adding Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook - can't connect to IMAP server

I am using Microsoft Outlook for Office 365 MSO - 32-bit (16.0.11328.20468) on Windows 10, and I would like to access my Gmail account from within Outlook. I know this is an "old question", and I ...
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Outlook 2016 has stopped working with Gmail IMAP

I currently use Outlook 2016 as my mail client on my PC to access a couple GMAIL accounts via IMAP. It has been working great for a couple years. Just last week it stopped working. Outlook started ...
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How to create a custom delete folder in Outlook 2016?

With Outlook 2007 I could go into account settings and choose my own folder where deleted items can go - the reason was to keeps the deleted emails forever, because Google (GMAIL) purges it every ...
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SSH Tunneling through HTTP Proxy Mac Mail.app

Has anyone successfully tunneled IMAP and SMTP from Mac's Mail.app over a HTTP proxy to a remote host and onto Gmail? So far, I've been able to tunnel the IMAP connection, however SMTP isn't ...
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Why does Google's app-passwords ALWAYS say the password is wrong?

After I have enabled the two-step-authorization, I cannot login my Gmail via Thunderbird anymore! I then noticed there is a way to do so with 'app-passwords'. So, I tried it, but it didn't work. ...
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How do I make deleted emails go to the Outlook Trash, not just Gmail trash?

I use Outlook 2013 with four email accounts on my notebook computer (Windows 8.1). For three of the accounts, every email I delete is sent to a Trash or Deleted folder in Outlook where I can recover ...
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Show only primary GMail folder in eM Client

Is there a way to configure eM Client, so that only the primary inbox view is displayed without fiddling with the IMAP settings in GMail itself (as discussed here)? Possibly show all custom views in ...
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How to sync Gmail IMAP subfolders for Outlook 2013?

I currently have my Gmail account synced with Outlook 2013 using IMAP, since the Google Apps Sync utility isn't compatible with Outlook 2013 yet. However, I've encountered a problem where my inbox's ...
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Imap-stars not visible in outlook

I have an Exchange server and two email clients: Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird. If I click to star a message in Thunderbird, this star is not visible in Outlook (nowhere). The same happens is I use ...
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firefox extention to check gmail apps that uses Google Applications Connector

is there any extension out there that would allow me to check my email that uses Google Applications Connector? http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/ I tried WebMail Notifier I have no idea why ...
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Thunderbird Search Folder broken "The mail server account [email protected] responded [NONEXISTANT] Unknown Mailbox: [Google Mail]/All Mail/folder"

One of my search folders has broken. I now get a "The mail server account [email protected] responded [NONEXISTANT] Unknown Mailbox: [Google Mail]/All Mail/mysearchfolder" error on application start ...
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Automatically respond to spécific subjects with mutt

I need to automate some tasks. Is there a way to receive a mail using mutt and respond to it if the subject match a desired list? Example: If I receive a mail subject beginning with hello or hi or ...
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Download gmail emails before a certain date to MS Outlook through IMAP

I am currently using MS Outlook to connect to my gmail account through IMAP. I would like to download all gmail emails before the year 2015. Can this be done? I am using Microsoft Outlook 2019. Thank ...
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Setup catch-all email without G-Suite?

I'd like to setup a catch-all email for my domain-name. From what I understand I can do this in Gmail if I have G-Suite. But I don't need G-Suite, literally the only thing I need is a catch-all email ...
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Gmail account import deleted all my mail

I decided to migrate my old mailbox ([email protected]) to Gmail. My goal was to use Gmail to keep my email, but still send as [email protected]. So what i did : Create new Gmail account myemail@...
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Apple Mail Can't Send Email with Gmail IMAP

I've got a client that I've set up G Suite for. They have multiple accounts (10) that they need to use regularly, so we set them up with Apple Mail to manage their emails. They seem to be able to ...
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Backup an inactive gmail account from Mail.app?

I have an gmail account that I've had working with Mail.app via IMAP for years (now on High Sierra). I no longer have access to the gmail account, but I have all the email locally on my machine. I'm ...
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Linked accounts to my Gmail, now it has gone crazy - 1000+ invisible unread emails in 4 hours

Help! I linked 2 of my additional emails to my Gmail and now my account has gone crazy. I do not have a good understanding of how server forwarding works, so I just googled it and followed the ...
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how to find all "unlabled" gmail messages through IMAP?

Bulk deleting non-labeled e-mails through the gmail web interface is less than perfect. Might there be some way to search for e-mails which are not in a specific folder? Gmail is rather unique in ...
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Thunderbird asks for passwords after some time from setting up the accounts. Passwords expiration?

When connecting email accounts to Thunderbird, I've checked remember this password option. But after a few weeks of password reentering-free life, it asks for the passwords yet again, out of the blue. ...
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GNU Emacs Gnus can't connect to gmail IMAP

I'm in the process of configuring Gnus to retrieve emails from my gmail account via IMAP. I have done as recommended at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail, however I keep on getting errors from ...
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Outlook 2013: Missing Second Calendar

I am using Outlook from Microsoft Office 2013 with a GMail IMAP account. At one point, I had 2 calendars showing on the Calendar tab. Somehow I deleted or hid 1 calendar. Currently, only 1 calendar ...
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Outlook "skip" on reciving mail from 1 account

I added a Gmail account to outlook.for some reason when i do "send/receive" its send receive on 2 previous accounts, on the new account its only "sending". is see like this: account 1 sending. ...
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If I add my Gmail to Outlook Express via IMAP, will it download all of my mail automatically?

I'm trying to rescue a ton of old mail from Outlook Express. I want to connect OE to my Gmail account via IMAP so I can upload the mail to Gmail. Question is: when I connect my Gmail via IMAP, will ...
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Need Eudora 7.1 MAPI to work so I can sync with GMAIL

Eudora Windows 7 MAPI working I'm just trying to figure out how to get MAPI working enough for the sole purpose of linking all my existing Eudora emails to a GMAIL account. I don't need any other ...
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Intermediate mail server or how to get IMAP with POP

I have the following problem: my university mail is on a IMAP server and I'm a Gmail user. I want to forward my university mail to mail Gmail, but it only accepts POP3 servers. I'm wondering if there ...
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What is wrong with Outlook 2010 and Gmail IMAP?

I have set up my Gmail account with Outlook 2010 SP1 using IMAP. One problem is bugging me like anything here is the sync problem. When I hit "Mark All as Read" in outlook for gmail account, outlook ...
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Connect to Exchange server with IMAP from GMail

At the moment I have an exchange account. All mail then gets forwarded to a GMail account. I have set that account up so I can send email from the exchange account so it looks as if I sent it from ...
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Added gmail with custom domain to outlook.com as 'connected account', can send emails as gmail account but not receive emails

As the title says, I can now send emails as the gmail email I added however the outlook.com account does not receive emails sent to the gmail account, even though it imports the gmail emails at the ...
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Outlook forcing me to original email account settings

I have several email accounts on my Outlook (Work email, personal, my son's football club im the admin of). I have moved the football email account from a Google Workspace email to another provider. ...
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