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  1. J

    Emails from 2016 to Present Disappeared?

    Hey everyone - Apologies if this has been discussed. A family member asked me for help, as her emails from 2016 to present suddenly disappeared in the Mail app Inbox on her iPhone 6s as well has her old iPad Air. The emails (from Gmail) are still visible in the Gmail app as well as on her iMac...
  2. K

    GMail contacts stopped syncing with Mac Contacts

    A few days ago my GMail contacts stopped syncing with Mac OS Contacts app. All my contact groups disappeared. Now there is an error message appearing on the Mac Contacts app, see attached picture. Syncing has stopped. I have not changed my Gmail password, nor updated my Mac OS. I normally...
  3. V

    gmail and native calendar app.

    Hello, When i add a a google account to my iOS device, the calendar invitations/notification won't show up in the native iOS calendar app in the inbox. So i can't accept or decline the meeting. I do see however a mail in the native mail app where i can accept the invitation, but this is super...
  4. HappyDude20

    How to Stop Daily Recurring SPAM Email Specifically in APPLE MAIL?

    I didn’t think this was a specific iOS or MacOS question and figured I cannot be the only individual within the MacRumors community from experiencing this so here goes: Gmail has never giving me problems and in the past 12 years have yet to see a spam email creep into my inbox. Apple Mail...
  5. K

    Mojave Mail 'forgetting' server settings

    Hi everyone, I upgraded from Yosemite to Mojave 10.14.3 two days ago, and it took a long time to get Mail 12.2 working. I'm on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro, and was setting up a POP Gmail account. I'm not on the cloud and prefer to manage my mail locally using Mac's Mail app. (I'm repeating my...
  6. fpotter

    Open In Webmail — Make email / mailto: links open in Gmail, Yahoo, etc. in macOS.

    Developer here. I just shipped this app that makes email links open into your Gmail, Yahoo, etc. instead of Apple Mail. I made this because the old "mailto" extension for Safari stopped working with Safari 12 / Mojave. (Apple blocked legacy extensions.). Works system-wide for Safari, Chrome...
  7. Appleuser201

    Google Hangouts, Instant messaging on a PPC mac?

    Hi, I am new to the forums and am thinking of buying an eMac G4 1.25ghz (with tiger installed) and an iMac G3 400mhz also with tiger installed from the same craigslist seller, $50 for both. Would I be able to use Google hangouts and gmail on them (using the TenFourFox browser)? Would messages...
  8. JSTKVC

    iPhone Unable to add Gmail Accounts on iOS 12.X

    We recently upgraded to iPhone X and noticed that one of our Gmail accounts was not downloading email. This email account is shared between two iPhones. We tried re-entering the password but it would become unresponsive so we tried removing the account and adding it back, but this time it won't...
  9. R

    Getting double emails from my secondary gmail address that I forward to my primary. Help please

    So I have a secondary gmail address that forwards to my primary address. To be totally honest I'm not sure how my forwarding is setup - at some point I was having a ton of trouble getting forwarding to work correctly (no delays, no missing emails, etc.) so I'm not sure what to change to make it...
  10. symoneous

    Apple mail discarding original message when replying

    Hi everyone, I frequently run into an issue where I hit reply to an email in mail on MacOS and it only retains the header in the inline message - but none of the body. The only way I can fix it is: A) hit reply 5-10 times and suddenly the whole message is there or b) start the reply on my iOS...
  11. zachlegomaniac

    Resolved Deleted Email Still Taking Storage Space

    Hi, I just deleted thousands of emails equaling almost 20 GB of space on my SSD (2013 rMBP on High Sierra), but when I click on "About This Mac" and "Storage" it still shows almost all of the storage being used on my rMBP. Could anyone help? Thank you! ZLM
  12. L

    Why does Safari "forgets" GMail passwords?

    Hi, recently Safari started to act differently and to bounce me out from my GMail, so I need to login after reboot or long sleep etc. Any idea why is this happening and how to solve it -- to make Safari "remember" I'm logged in? Many thanks Lexy
  13. M

    Mac Mail search behaving oddly

    Hi all, Long time lurker first time poster! I have a guy in my work who is seeing strange behaviour whilst searching for mail using the Apple Mail client. He has gmail configured and all his mail appear as is. When he searches for email and types the users first name e.g. 'john'. It will...
  14. S

    iCloud Not Receiving Google Calendar Invites

    Hi folks. Here's an issue I think others may also run into. I use iCloud as my primary calendar. I don't use Google Calendar at all, though I used to. My iCloud account username/email is my Gmail address. When a Gmail / Google Calendar user tries to invite me to a calendar event, I don't...
  15. maj88

    iOS vs GSuite - iPhone Sync

    Guys, I have just moved my company from old hosting to GSuite by Google. I'm very used to the native Mail App, which I use on both MBP and iPhone. On my laptop everything went flawlessly, however on my iPhone I am struggling. Firstly, I have added GMail account in Settings. All looked fine...
  16. M

    Being informed of e-mail from my wife

    When my wife is out of the house the only reliable way for her to contact me is by e-mail. I'm on Gmail. But when I'm writing on my Mac I don't like to be distracted by the internet and will either minimise the browser, usually Chrome though I'm attracted by Opera, or prevent it from opening...
  17. DA23Gam

    iPad Gmail links?

    Hi Apologies at the outset - I'm fairly new at this ios malarkey. Why do links in Gmail messages not work? I've tapped it & pressed it but nothing happens! How can I fix this?
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    Is there any way to securely have a gmail account use an email alias with mail.app in iOS 11?

    Hey all, is there any way to securely have a gmail account use an email alias with mail.app on iOS? (Example, the "from" email is different than the gmail email address itself and looks like it's coming from your domain, i.e. the actual gmail account is “mike@gmail.com" and I want the email to...
  19. ChrisLisi1982

    iOS mail or gmail AND outlook?

    I have the iPhone X, I have email with outlook and gmail, I’ve been using the official apps for both but am tempted to use the built in mail app but I’m concerned that as gmail has to use fetch it will drain the battery? I would want it to fetch new mail as often as possible so every 15 minuets...
  20. S

    transferring email from one gmail account to another

    Last night I initiated the transfer of email, using POP, from my old gmail/Google Apps account to a new account that I just set up. I am transferring about 20GB of email from 2007 and I thought I set it up to transfer both old and new email. About twelves hour into the transfer, I have...