![]() ![]() In fact, following those old directions now will lead you far from bliss. ![]() ![]() As I documented in “ Achieving Email Bliss with IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail,”, you just do x, y, and z (well, 21 steps’ worth of x, y, and z), and it will all work But, after much trial and error, I eventually found a combination of Mail settings and Gmail settings that, prior to Mavericks, resulted in a stable - and indeed largely pleasant - experience. Pseudo-IMAP Changes - Mail and Gmail were never a fantastic combination out of the box, because Gmail has a wacky, highly nonstandard way of using IMAP, and Mail always wanted to treat Gmail as though it were a conventional IMAP server. (The Joe Hulk drawing above is a snippet of an awesome Joy of Tech comic published in response to this article.) Here’s what I’ve observed and what you can (and can’t) do about it. Your mileage may vary, of course, but based on my own experiences and those of hundreds of people who have commented online, Mail’s behavior with Gmail accounts - especially at first - leaves a lot to be desired. Although some of the changes are quite clever and useful, the implementation is not without flaws. #1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book reviewĪpple Mail in OS X 10.9 Mavericks treats Gmail accounts differently than any previous version of Mail did.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?.1672: The hidden power of Google Sheets, Launchpad usage levels, Emergency SOS via satellite in the Maui fires, do you use proxy icons?. ![]()
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