Deleting Gmail emails on your phone does NOT work

[impliciter]

THEY'VE FIXED IT!!!!

It's good to see it's official now. While the deletion is nice, I think the biggest impact with this is that SEARCH ON GMAIL SERVER NOW WORKS!

 

[jleebiker]

Ok, I went to m.google.com/sync on my Trophy and there wasn't a download. There are links to instructions, but is there an actual app?

 

[thed]

Ok, I went to m.google.com/sync on my Trophy and there wasn't a download. There are links to instructions, but is there an actual app?

There's no download, just log in with your gmail account, tap on your device in the list (mine was named WindowsPhone), then you'll see a checkbox that you can select that says Enable "Delete Email As Trash" for this device.

 

[Pronk]

Top tip - have IE set to mobile rather than desktop or you won't get the right screens up!

 

[jleebiker]

Top tip - have IE set to mobile rather than desktop or you won't get the right screens up!

THAT DID IT !!!! Mine was set to Desktop so wasn't presented these options.

 

[martan1981#WN]

If I set this delete mail as thrash in http://m.google.com/sync, does it work if I set my Gmail account as imap or exchange or both?
Thanks a lot.

 

[MichaelBanning]

I can't remember if I set it to imap or exchange, but follow the article on wpcentral.com about it and you'll be good to go!

 

[socialcarpet]

Weird. I just tested this by deleting an email from my Gmail account on the phone's Outlook app, pressing the sync button and then logging into email on my computer.

The email I deleted on the phone disappeared from my inbox on the computer, as I would expect it too.

 

[MichaelBanning]

Perhaps I misunderstood martan's question. I thought he was asking about an option during setup (like how often to set it to sync or something), but if the question was whether or not to choose "Outlook" or "Google" at the very beginning when deciding which TYPE of account to add to the phone, I added it as a Google account. I just have it set up to send or receive mail instantly, so it works like an exchange account.

 

[martan1981#WN]

Mail always disappears from Inbox, thats OK. But its moved to All mail instead of Bin. Thats the difference we are talking about.

 

[martan1981#WN]

Mike: If you set your account as Google instead of exchange, can you still synchronize mail, calendar and contacts? I thought that if I want to sync all 3 of them, I have to set account as exchange. At least that is how it works on iphone.
And if you set it as Goolge, isnt the mail working as IMAP? Which means there is no push, as IMAP IDLE is not supported?

 

[Jake_M]

Maybe you guys should check this out...
http://forums.windowscentral.com/os-discussion/191258.htm

Bam. Fixed it for me.

 

[isulegig]

That fixed for me too. Thanks for sharing!

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