How To Fix Gmail Problems in Mavericks Apple Mail

Author: erics, Posted February 4th, 2014 at 8:15:27am

Mail in Mavericks requires All Mail to be enabled in Gmail. If you disable All Mail, Mavericks now causes messages to jump back to where they started, or get duplicated, after they’re moved to different mailbox folders.

To stop that from happening, you need to re-enable All Mail. Here’s how:

1. Launch your favorite Web browser and log in to your Gmail account
2. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of your email view, and choose Settings
3. Now click Labels
4. Check All Mail under System labels

Original Post: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/making-gmail-and-os-x-mavericks-mail-play-well-together

One other things to try would be to turn off POP mail in Gmail settings (if both POP and IMAP are active).

Also, this article from Apple Support gives some interesting advice: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5367?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

OS X: New email messages not received until Mail is quit and reopened

Symptoms

For some email providers, new email messages in Mail may only appear to arrive when Mail is first opened. No new email arrives until Mail is quit and reopened.

Resolution

Quitting and reopening Mail forces it to re-establish a connection to the email server. You can use these steps to receive new mail messages without quitting Mail:

Choose Mailbox > Take All Accounts Offline.
Choose Mailbox > Get All New Mail.

As a shortcut, you can also add the Take All Accounts Offline and Get Mail buttons to your Mail toolbar.

Choose View > Customize Toolbar.
Drag the Take All Accounts Offline button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.
Drag the Get Mail button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.
Click Done

To receive new mail messages, click the Take Offline button, then click the Check Mail button.

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Gmail, IMAP, mail, Mavericks