Gmail question....

[glen4cindy]

I'm going to start by saying I don't keep my mailbox as clean as I should.

When I purchased my Air and synced everything to it, it showed about 17,000 emails in Gmail.

I recently switched from Android to iPhone. So, same deal with the phone.

So, no matter how much I clean out Gmail on the computer, I still have thousands on both devices. And, just tonight, I went through and painfully deleted over 2500 from my iPad, but, of course, all of them are still visible on my iPhone, (at least last time I looked).

It would be nice to not have to repeat this process over and over. I clean and clean on the computer, only to see the same messages sitting on my phone and iPad.

Is there any solution to this vicious cycle?

Thanks in advance!

 

[J. A.]

Which way did you set up the Gmail account? There's a Gmail option in Settings - Mails, Contacts, Calendars - Add new Account.

In case you used this, take a look at your Gmail settings through a browser, if you use one of your iDevices, go to desktop view and look at the settings from there.
Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab, see what you selected there. It might be the choice not to sync wih the server in this setting (Enable IMAP, Auto-Expunge off) that's the reason for this behaviour.

Hope that helps.