I’m not quite ready to loosen my grip on Mail.app and jump totally to Google/Mailplane, but I’m having an issue with deleting messages.

If I use Mail’s delete button, it puts it in the Mail trash folder, not the Google trash folder. Anyway that can be adjusted so it syncs to the IMAP server. Dragging the mail to appropriate trash folder is annoying to say the least, especially when I have 4 accounts open. Not to mention old habits die hard.
And just realized this happens for Sent messages as well. What am I doing wrong.
Thanks for your help.

But in response to all, especially you Mr. Ridley, owning your own mail server (or part of one as most of us can’t afford to own the whole of a hosted server) is not a practical solution.

Simple solution: If you are paranoid GMail will look at your emails out, use GPG. Encrypt and sign emails and files sent with GMail.

Hell you should use GPG with all sensitive emails, regardless of whose server you use. Your email can be sniffed anywhere along its route.

The only downside is you can’t see what you actually sent the person (asymmetric encryption). Just send a copy of the plain text encrypted to yourself before sending. It’s annoying, but that is what confidential communication requires these days.

I love Google, but I don’t trust them. If Google’s standards are as low as YOU make them out to be, then the world is going to shit anyway.

My apologies.

An interesting piece from Google themselves on Privacy:

“Privacy. As a condition to using the Service, you agree to the terms of the Gmail Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. Google understands that privacy is important to you. You do, however, agree that Google may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails…as otherwise provided in these Terms of Use and the Gmail Privacy Policy. Personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Google Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using Gmail, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.”

And the best part is, is that they provide this service without any responsible for it!

“Indemnification. You agree to hold harmless and indemnify Google, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of the Service, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments(sic), litigation costs and attorneys’ fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, Google will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.”
http://gmail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html

I also notice that you are running Adsense ads on this site. Did you know this, which is the contract you agree to when you sign up with Adsense…

“Google may transfer and disclose to third parties personally identifiable information about You for the purpose of approving and enabling Your participation in the Program, including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws than Your own.” https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

Why anyone would have anything to do with this company, not to mention, trust them, is beyond me. There are plenty of other alternatives for email and ads.

Darrell

Thanx for not showing my last two comments. Nice practice!

Darrell

Plus, Google recruited Matt Cutts, who is an ex NSA spy. This is all verifiable information, just a quick search will give you the results.

Also, my emails are not to my Mom, but to business associates and partners. I certainly don’t want someone other than the intended recipient reading those emails, which usually have sensitive information contained therein.

What guarantees do I have that that information is kept private, some brief privacy policy from the private sector?

I will not respond to anyone who sends me an email from an Gmail account.

Darrell

“Google maintains and processes your Gmail account and its contents to provide the Gmail service to you and to improve our services. The Gmail service includes relevant advertising and related links based on the IP address, content of messages and other information related to your use of Gmail.”

The link is here…

http://gmail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html

For a more detailed look at what Google’s GMail does, check out this…

http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html

Welcome to the real world of the Google Spy!

Darrell

It certainly is true, they admit it themselves. I am fortunate to have my own hosting company and about 40 websites, so all my mail goes through me. It is comforting to know that what I write and what someone writes to me is between us and no third-party, that’s all.

I don’t trust Google. They don’t have a good track record and plus they sold out to the Chinese by censoring their search results. Why? Because of the mighty dollar.

Google is a private organization. Who’s keeping them honest?

I’ve been using Gmail to manage all my email accounts for quite some time now and have all of my various email addresses forwarding to it.

I recently enabled IMAP on my account and have had no end of problems with it, emails appearing in the inbox (I use Entourage) after they’ve been deleted, spam loading into the email box after I’ve clicked on the spam folder, emails loosing labels, it’s all really rather annoying.

Have you noticed any similar issues? I was wondering if it was just an Entourage thing or if it was a common occurrence or if it’s just me!