Delete GMail emails

[negro napoleon]

There needs to be an option like blackberry's

Delete from handheld or both the handheld and the inbox.

Thats it.

 

[Krevnik]

I'm not using the gmail app, but was using the built in mail app with it set up through exchange.

The good news is that it looks like you can turn on the "delete means delete" option for GMail Exchange. This rolled out fairly recently, very quietly. And the option is somewhat hidden. On your phone:

- Visit m.google.com/sync and login.
- Select your device from the list of devices (probably only have 1-2). Easy way to know which is right is to look for the last sync time.
- Click on 'Enable "Delete EMail As Trash" for this device.'

This is the same way you enable the ability to send mail as an alias for Google Sync as well.

It's been working well for me. I can move mail to "All Mail" to archive, and delete to delete. It acts just like any other mail account on Exchange, which is really what I want.

 

[TLewis]

This rolled out fairly recently, very quietly. And the option is somewhat hidden. On your phone:

Nice, thanks!

 

[dtbratt]

About time they changed it! Has been working great today for me.

 

[openendstraight]

fixed problem. Thanks

 

[BigHungry04]

So glad they finally fixed it.

 

[Puonti]

The good news is that it looks like you can turn on the "delete means delete" option for GMail Exchange. This rolled out fairly recently, very quietly. And the option is somewhat hidden. On your phone:

Seems to work as expected, thanks for the tip!

Though it's pretty irrelevant now, for those who didn't know it before deleting Google Exchange email in the built-in Mail app worked as intended as long as you deleted it from within the "All Mail" folder. It ended up in Trash and stayed there. Deleting from Inbox moved the email briefly to Trash, then to All Mail. Deleting it from there to begin with did the trick. Not a huge hassle if you knew about it, but definitely not intuitive.