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What are most people setting the sync time frame to? I had it at 3 days until I realized I often have a need to go back at least a week to pull up old mail, but I'm still seeing a fairly bad battery drain, that was even with it set to 3 days, I fear it'll be worse set to a week, unless the battery issue resolves itself I'm going to probably go back to checking manually, not worth it, when battery life is already pretty bad to begin with.
I think google sync was down for a few hours today. I just received a bootload of messages at once. I also noticed my battery drained quickly the last hour or two. When everything is working, I'm getting great battery life.
That setting really has no effect unless you are syncing more than the Inbox. Unless you never archive your mail and keep everything in the Inbox. Then it would have an effect.
He means if you hit the Archive button on the Internet version of Gmail instead of putting it in the trash or something else.
The days is only telling it how much old mail to go out and get basically.
If you are only syncing the Inbox, then that days setting won't do anything for the battery.
I'm surprised to see that no one here has noticed that using google sync, you won't be able to send email as other addresses you have authorised through gmail's settings.
it's always sent as your gmail ID, no matter how you set it up
kind of annoying since I use a a short code gmail address and send email as a longer gmail address (my surname), and have this longer address redirected towards the main gmail address.
it's always sent as your gmail ID, no matter how you set it up
kind of annoying since I use a a short code gmail address and send email as a longer gmail address (my surname), and have this longer address redirected towards the main gmail address.
It's always been that way. It's a limitation of the iPhone. It was that way when using Gmail IMAP.
No it wasn't.
You can set up any address you want with IMAP.
It will only work, however, if that address is authorised for use by gmail (Gmail settings->Accounts)
Note that there are two fields when setting up IMAP accounts on your iphone: email address, and username. Likewise for exchange accounts, it's just that google doesn't honour this setting when you send email thru gmail's exchange server. Moreover, I've been using NuevaSync's exchange server to have gmail push, and with them you can also specify a different From: address (again, it needs to be authorised).
I just tried this and it doesn't work with Gmail IMAP. Not so sure what you're talking about now...
Delete only archives an email. This is listed on the issues list. So if it is in a label, it really has no effect. If it is in the inbox, then it removes the "Inbox" label.
Same here. It would be better if we could set up multiple Exchange accounts on the iPhone, though like you say the ideal solution would be to have a true push feature for Gmail.
Is your gmail set up as IMAP? Mine is and when I delete an email from my Inbox on my phone, it disappears from my computer completely. I actually wish it wouldn't do that because I like to manually delete stuff from my Deleted Items. If I delete an item from my Inbox on my computer, it moves to my Deleted Items (or Trash - I'm not home so I don't recall what name it goes by). Anyway, when I want to permanently delete an item I just delete it from the deleted items. I'd love to be able to set up my phone to work the same way. Until then, I have to be careful not to delete anything from my Inbox on my iphone or else it's gone for good.
First off, we are talking about Exchange, not IMAP. However, if your Gmail is setup with IMAP, deleting from the inbox or any other label will move it to trash. It certainly will not delete it from the account completely.
I understand we're talking about exchange. The reason I mentioned that my gmail was set up as IMAP is because I seem to be experiencing the exact opposite of NotOwning. When he/she deletes an email on his/her phone, the email is still visible on the computer. When I delete an email from my phone, it disappears from my computer.
It's because Google Exchange server currently archives mail and doesn't move it to Trash (it's a known issue). While IMAP on Gmail/iPhone will move the file to trash.
I'm happy enough with Google push that I've decided to cancel my personal domain exchange. Battery seems to have stabilized.
Anyone's gmail not working today? I'm receiving emails, but can't delete or send any..guess they're having some server issues again?
I've been having trouble for the past hour or so, but can't seem to find any notices of server issues on their website.