How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users

Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by 3JPLW on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @04:47PM (#6601589)

The only problematic part for me has been that the setting "Store draft messages on the server" reverted back to being on. When enabled, it ends up generating hundreds of autosave messages and repeatedly trashing them.

But Mail.app seems to be working exactly as it used to otherwise. I use an IMAP connection to Gmail, with a full local archive and over 54k messages. Maybe I just haven't run into the problems yet? I don't use smart mailboxes; perhaps that's where all the trouble is.

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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by itafroma on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:08PM (#6601733)

I've been using Mail.app with Gmail since DP1 with four separate accounts and your experiences are exactly the same as mine: business as usual except for the hundreds of draft messages being generated due to "Store draft messages on the server" being re-checked.

I do, however, use smart mailboxes: they have no effect on the functioning of Gmail. They shouldn't, either: they're not much more than local saved searches.

I suspect this might be a case of correlation rather than causation.

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