iPhone Gmail Users, Beware! - Changes in the deletion of emails arrived yesterday               
By: Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor               


Yesterday’slaunch of the new Gmail experience for the iPhone was kind of rushed bythe dev team, so they never got the chance to note all the updates thathad been implemented. Slowly, probably one every couple of days, theywill reach Internet light and show everybody what the                         engineers have worked so hard for.

The IMAP feature that was released by Google in late October is fullyfunctional and as useful as ever when it comes to syncing mail. If youread a message on the iPhone it will show as read in the Gmail accountwhen you check it using a desktop system, if you delete one it willalso be deleted in the account. No, hold it, that last one was just adream for users, the Mecca of IPhone IMAP, but with the last update,hitting the "Delete" button actually does what it’s supposed to do.

It won’t do it like the original, deleting it forever, instead it willsend it to your Trash folder and then unless you do something about it,it will be deleted in 30 days. In case you want to archive it insteadof deleting it, you are given that option through the use of the"Other" dropdown menu and follow the video posted on Youtubethat deals with the problem.

On the other hand, "if you have already manually configured your iPhoneto access Gmail using IMAP via this "Other" menu option, then nothingwill change for you, and you're good to go. (When you delete a messageon your iPhone, it will get archived in Gmail, not moved to Trash. Justas it always has)," says Product Manager Keith Coleman on the OfficialGmail Blog.

It’s good that we were noticed. I know people who just quit using the"Delete" button when accessing their Gmail accounts via their iPhone. Iguess this means that the promised experience is pretty much as closeto the real deal as can be.


[ Last edited by  lifeforces at 1-17-2008 14:23 ]