M
Magritte
I've recently tried to switch to using GMail (Google Apps) as my mail
provider for IMAP support. I'm managing several different e-mail accounts on
GMail using IMAP.
I'm finding, however, that Outlook 2007 is not synchronizing the accounts
the way it should (or at least the way I understand it should).
From what I understand GMail's IMAP server subscribes you to all folders by
default. Under Send/Receive options I've gone through each account and
enabled downloading of complete messages including attachments.
If I click on send/receive all I pop up the details window it claims to by
synchronizing subscribed folders for each account. It's schedules to do this
every 10 minutes whether on or offline.
However, it doesn't seem to actually do anything. I've set up several links
in the favourites section of the navigation panel to monitor the inbox and
spam folder for each account. These should turn bold and show in parenthesis
how many unread messages are waiting when new mail arrives. But this
generally doesn't happen. I need to manually select each folder before it
gets updated and shows me the new messages. So I can't tell at a glance what
the status of all the mail accounts are...
It does seem like sometimes some of the folders will get updated correctly.
I think it has to do with the last folder selected or something along those
lines. I had one account where the inbox was updated correctly but the spam
folder appeared empty until I click on it, then magically 2 messages
appeared...
Am I missing something or is this just not working the way it should?
The other issue I've noticed is using colours to organize the inbox of an
IMAP folder doesn't seem to work. I have one account that also receives
messages forwarded from another e-mail address. I set up a rule to colour
messages blue if the "to" header contains the other e-mail address. This
didn't work. Does organizing by colour not work for IMAP?
Thanks!
provider for IMAP support. I'm managing several different e-mail accounts on
GMail using IMAP.
I'm finding, however, that Outlook 2007 is not synchronizing the accounts
the way it should (or at least the way I understand it should).
From what I understand GMail's IMAP server subscribes you to all folders by
default. Under Send/Receive options I've gone through each account and
enabled downloading of complete messages including attachments.
If I click on send/receive all I pop up the details window it claims to by
synchronizing subscribed folders for each account. It's schedules to do this
every 10 minutes whether on or offline.
However, it doesn't seem to actually do anything. I've set up several links
in the favourites section of the navigation panel to monitor the inbox and
spam folder for each account. These should turn bold and show in parenthesis
how many unread messages are waiting when new mail arrives. But this
generally doesn't happen. I need to manually select each folder before it
gets updated and shows me the new messages. So I can't tell at a glance what
the status of all the mail accounts are...
It does seem like sometimes some of the folders will get updated correctly.
I think it has to do with the last folder selected or something along those
lines. I had one account where the inbox was updated correctly but the spam
folder appeared empty until I click on it, then magically 2 messages
appeared...
Am I missing something or is this just not working the way it should?
The other issue I've noticed is using colours to organize the inbox of an
IMAP folder doesn't seem to work. I have one account that also receives
messages forwarded from another e-mail address. I set up a rule to colour
messages blue if the "to" header contains the other e-mail address. This
didn't work. Does organizing by colour not work for IMAP?
Thanks!