Gmail is teh suck!
Written by Arnan on July 5, 2008 – 2:09 pmWhy is there an “All mail” folder that keeps EVERY FUCKING MESSAGE i write, draft and delete.
What’s the point of deleting a message if its not deleted?
What’s the point of a spam folder when it’s kept in there?
Why is that stupid thing there in the first place…
When i delete a message in my mail application i want it to be gone, when i delete my spam mails from the “spam” box i want them to be fucking removed and not moved to the “all mail” folder on the Gmail webinterface.
When i write a message it does not have to save a copy of the mail with every letter i type…
Yes Gmail keeps all those too. When i browse the online thing some mails are in there a hundred times and when i compare them to see what’s up it’s the very same message but every time with one added character or word depending on how fast i was typing.
Currently i have over a 100MB, that’s in my case like 3000 messages, of emails in my Gmail account and i want to save maybe 20 messages of them. The rest is rubbish!
Yes i can delete them from the webinterface and the mails are gone. But i want the IMAP protocol to do that and not go into the webinterface and sift trough 3000+ messages to see which i want to keep and which can be deleted. It’s madness. I never use the damn webinterface i use OSX Mail.
Fuck no i care not about deleted message and hell no i don’t want to keep the Calvin & Hobbes comic i get every day. When i click delete i mean delete. And when i click “junk” i mean it’s junk and thus can be removed… So remove them already when i click it.
*argh!!*
Tags: annoyance, crap, gmail, mail, rant |
September 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Here is what I did… I found the hints somewhere else.
1. Deleted messages is used for Trash. I store on the server. So, it will be deleted in 30 days. If I want sooner, I set it to deleted after a week.
2. Store Junk on the server. Spam box is set to Use this Mailbox for Junk. Again, I can set the interval.
3. Ditto for Sent
4. Regarding All Mail, in terminal, I found the All Mail mailbox. I removed it and I created a link with the same name to /dev/null.
Working fine and I am happy.
Maybe you already found solutions. If not and you need clarification, drop me email and I will be detailed.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Fred, yea that sort of works… on the computer. If you look at the IMAP folders (which are on the server) it does not delete anything.
Everything has labels and everything is nicely stored in “all mail” untill you actually delete it from the Gmail website/interface.