E-Mail sync with Gmail
 

I have set up Gmail on my phone, but I am having a problem that I can't seem to fix.

When I delete an e-mail on my phone, it also deletes it from the Gmail server also. Is there a way so that this doesn't happen? In the e-mail setup there is an option about deleting e-mail, but neither option is what I want. (I have attached the picture) I'm not sure if that's even the right place to check.

What I want is my emails to be displayed onto my phone, and when I delete an email from my phone I want it to stay on Gmail.com Is there a way to do this?

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Why would you only want it deleted it from one spot though..?? I mean if it's an imperative message that you can't live without just go onto your computer, and save the message, than delete it... Otherwise messages just take up space...

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Nope, i'm pretty sure that's the way Exchange works. your best bet is to archive it in gmail, and it will be removed from your inbox on next sync.

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From your INBOX:
Select menu
Select tools
Select options
Select the gmail account
Select accout setup
Tap next 5 times this should put you on the screen that has “Automatic send/recieve:" at the top
Select “Advance settings” located at the bottom of the screen
Drop down box under “when deleting messages:”
Select one of the two options (Move them to trash or delete them off the server)
Tap done and your all set

Hope this helps. There is no option to keep the message in your in box on the server but at least its not totally deleted. Just remember to start from your inbox not on the sense tab or you will not get the same menu options

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Why dont you just select the message and than hit move and put it in the "all mai"l folder thats like the archive for gmail. so it wont delete it but rather archive it. and than delete the ones that you actually wanna delete that way when you go into gmail its all organized and you did it all from your phone. If you have folders or labels setup than you can also put the email in the folder.

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That's weird that there is no option for that. I know when I had my HTC mogul there was an option so that when I deleted mail on my phone it didn't delete it from gmail.com.

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I have gmail set up on my phone. When I delete emails on my phone they stay in my gmail account so that when I check my email on my computer, they show up again. I don't sync because I don't use Outlook.

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That's exactly what I want, but no matter which way I set it up the messages always get deleted from my gmail.com when I delete them from my phone. I thought I figured it out by changing the incoming server settings from IMAP.gmail.com to POP.gmail.com, but that didn't work either.

How do you have it set up? Did you do anything special?

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I never saw the page that you have in your first post. Are you using some sort of gmail app? I just set mine up like any other email account. I have POP and IMAP enabled in my Gmail settings. There is also a drop down there that lets you tell gmail what to do when an email is accessed with POP. I set it to leave the email in the inbox. I have to log into gmail directly every once in a while to delete emails but they never download more than once to either the phone or my computer email program.

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I'm using the email application that's built into the phone. Did you do anything special when you set it up?

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Just set ip up as a POP and set Gmail, thru the website, to keep the mail in the folder when retrieved with POP. Then setup your desktop email to retrieve as IMAP, if you want it deleted after retrieval.

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I use google sync, and it doesn't delete them off the server when I delete them off my phone. instead of imap/pop, I just set up the account through activesync with the server of m.google.com, your whole email address and password as the login creds, and all other options default, and that's how it works on my phone: delete it off the phone, it just trashes the message there, but will still appear in my gmail when I login on my PC

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I just tried setting it up again, this time I used pop3 from the beginning. There was a little drop down box right under when you type in "pop.gmail.com" and I changed the option from IMAP to POP. This option wasn't there when I had already set up my email using the default settings the first time.

I'm testing it out now to see if it works.

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Yeah, I forgot to mention that step. Let us know how it works for you.

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It looks like it worked. The only quirk I see is that when I delete an SMS/MMS they don't go to the 'deleted items' bin anymore. I don't know how that's related at all, but I can live with it.

Thanks for all the help.

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No problem, glad I could give back to the community.

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I've found that if I select all messages and "move to" [gmail]. It removes them from my device without deleting them from Google's server