Gmail not pulling read messages. WTF?

[AxeYrCat]

Hi. Despite being pretty new to the forum, I'd like to assert that I'm not a total idiot, even though this problem has me feeling that way.


I searched, and I didn't find any info on the issue, so I'm wondering if I'm just missing something blatantly obvious (bringing us back to me being a total idiot, and if that's the case, I sincerely apologize).


For whatever reason, my Gmail account won't pull messages that I've already read. I know it's not a setting in Gmail, because I check it on multiple mail clients at work and home on multiple computers, and all of them pull my read messages as well as unread ones.

Why the crap doesn't my Touch want to bring in the read ones? Hell, even my Mogul (POS that it was) didn't do behave this way....

What gives?

What am I missing?

What do I need to change?


Thanks in advance, and sorry for apparently being the total idiot that I didn't think I was...

[sbrown2680]

Set up your gmail with IMAP not POP3

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/...y?answer=78886
To configure IMAP for your Windows Mobile 6 device, just follow these steps:

Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings.
Open the Start menu and select Programs > Messaging > New E-mail Account.
Enter your Gmail address (including '@gmail.com') in the E-mail Address field*. Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format 'username@your_domain.com'*.
* Windows Mobile 6.1 users: Enter an unintelligible email address (such as 'g@g') at this step. This will bypass the automatic configuration for POP access.
Uncheck the box that asks to get settings automatically from the Internet and select Next.
Select Internet e-mail as your email provider in the drop-down menu.
Enter your name as you want it to appear in sent emails.
Enter a descriptive name for the email account and select Next.
Enter 'imap.gmail.com' in the Incoming Mail Server field.
Select IMAP4 as the Account type from the drop-down menu and select Next.
Enter your full email address (including '@gmail.com' or '@your_domain.com') and password.
Select Next.
Enter 'smtp.gmail.com' in the Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server field.
Make sure that the Outgoing server requires authentication box is checked.
Select the Advanced Server Settings link.
Make sure that the Require SSL box is checked for both incoming and outgoing emails.
Select The Internet as the network connection from the drop-down menu.
Select Done and then Next.
Select how often you want your phone to send/receive emails from the drop-down menu.
For more download options, select the Review all download settings link.
Select Finish.
Check our recommended client settings, and adjust your client's settings as needed.

[AxeYrCat]

I did that, but thanks.

Still not pulling read messages for some reason or another.

There's no reason that my Gmail inbox on my phone and the Gmail inbox on Thunderbird or Mail should look any different, and yet, they do...

Even when I initially setup the account, it pulls the majority of my messages, but not all of them.

And yes, I am absolutely positive that my account is setup as IMAP, that my info is correct, and that all other things are functioning properly... It just doesn't want to pull some of my messages (and no, those messages do not have attachments of any kind).