Gmail issues

georgiac

When I open a gmail attachment on my tablet, it seems to affect the same email that is on my gmail account on my pc. Sometimes it seems to delete the message ( although this may be me deleting it on my tablet!)

Please does anyone know if there is a setting where if I open the email on one device it doesn't change the other one?

Thanks

pbartlett

When you synchronise, anything you do is reflected on all attached devices. Turn off synchronisation on one device, but then you won't get new emails etc

Jenni_D

As an example .. I use Outlook (the app within Office) as my main email client on my PC. When I open it, it downloads emails in my Gmail Inbox to my PC. However, whilst those emails disappear from my Gmail Inbox they don't disappear from Gmail - they move to the All Mail folder. Is this what's actually happening for you?

grumpycrab

Jenni_D said:

However, whilst those emails [downloaded to Outlook on PC] disappear from my Gmail Inbox...

Stupid question - why do they disappear from Gmail Inbox?  Surely they should only disappear if you delete them on PC (or are you using POP!?)
As far as the OP is concerned, you should check whether you're using IMAP on the tablet (and pc).  And openning an email on one computer will not affect the other.  BUT if you delete one, it will also delete on the other.

Jenni_D

I'm using IMAP ... and what I've described is the default action as far as I am aware. I think downloading to an email client marks them as archived. So the emails don't disappear from Gmail, they just move to a different folder within Gmail. It's always been this way for me.

grumpycrab

Yes, Gmail and it's "interesting" labelling/filters.  Not sure about Archive-when-read being the default but it would explain the OPs functionality.  It doesn't work like that for me.
Another possibility is that the OP has messages ordered on unread first with read emails appearing after.

tempus_fugit

I use Gmail via IMAP on several devices, and downloading emails to one of the devices does not mark them as archived, it just marks them as read once I read them. I have to manually archive them via the client (I use Spark on all devices) for that to happen, except where I have set up a filter to archive them once received within Gmail but then that happens before I even see them. So I'm a little puzzled by some of the behaviours mentioned here.

Ultimately, if you use IMAP (which surely most people do nowadays) then anything you do via the client should be reflected on the server and subsequently on other connected devices.

CKhalvashi

Jenni_D said:

I'm using IMAP ... and what I've described is the default action as far as I am aware. I think downloading to an email client marks them as archived. So the emails don't disappear from Gmail, they just move to a different folder within Gmail. It's always been this way for me.

I use Yandex Mail (but have multiple email addresses and have a preference for how it deals with the emails from them), and only if deleted from one device does it delete from the others.

I'd imagine that Google is similar, but it may be worth looking at forwarding via another service if Google doesn't do this (it should, but that doesn't mean it does). I don't like Google's way of moving things into folders in any event.

Jenni_D

For the avoidance of doubt - I have no issues whatsoever with how Gmail handles things. I'm well aware of what to expect when I use it.

I was ONLY giving a scenario that might explain the OP's issues. (Remember ... I am not the OP here).