VanguardLH said:
You retrieve e-mails from Gmail. You read them in your local e-mail
client (Outlook). They show up as read in Gmail. Obviously Gmail is
staying in sync with Outlook. So what's the problem? What did you
expect to happen in Gmail and Outlook?
Ah, I misread your original post. I first thought you said they were
showing as 'read' in Gmail. I looked again and see you said the appear
as 'UNread'.
So how do you have your Gmail account configured for remote access by a
local e-mail client (so you don't have to use their webmail interface)?
As POP or IMAP? And, yes, you *do* know how Gmail is setup because you
can go look at its options using the webmail interface.
If you configured Gmail to use POP for access then that's what you need
to use in your local e-mail client. You'll need to see what action you
configured in Gmail's settings for your account as to what it does with
the new e-mails after you have retrieved them using a local e-mail
client. That is, check the POP settings in your Gmail account to see
what Gmail does with your e-mails after you poll that account using
Outlook. To emulate POP, you would need to configure Gmail's handling
to delete the e-mail from your Inbox after retrieving it using a POP
e-mail client. However, you can also configure Gmail to leave a copy of
the e-mail in your Inbox (you aren't actually saving a "copy" but
instead not deleting the original after yanking it using a POP e-mail
client.
Don't expect Gmail's "interpretation" of POP and IMAP protocols to match
up with the RFCs that other real e-mail clients follow. There are
differences. If you configure Gmail to leave a copy of an e-mail in
your Inbox, that's where it stays. Gmail ignores the DELE (delete)
command normally sent by a POP e-mail client. POP clients normally
issue a RETR (retrieve) followed by a DELE command. Some POP clients
let you not send the DELE command (so mails stays on the server). Gmail
doesn't care if the DELE command is sent since it ignores it and uses
whatever settings you configured in your Gmail account for POP access.
If you configured Gmail to use IMAP for access then messages don't get
deleted from the server until you delete them from your local e-mail
client but only after your client does its next mail poll. Deleting an
item in an IMAP account defined in your client only makes that item
*eligible* for deletion and why a red-line is through that item. During
the next mail poll when you client connects to the mail server does the
sync happen to get that item deleted from the server (and then it
disappears in the client or gets moved to another folder). You can
force an immediate sync by using Purge (to connect to the mail server to
sync up those eligible delete-marked items).
