My email is Google Apps - and it's pretty large.
So yesterday, in an attempt to reduce the size of the email on my computers (one of which does not have much space), I archived 2010 and 2011 email. While I was at it, I found an article which said that in Mac Mail, if you have the gmail setting to "Show All Mail in IMAP" it effectively downloads two copies of all messages - the Inbox AND the All Mail, so for saving space and efficiency, don't tick the "Show all mail" box.
This sounded really promising for saving disc space, so I unchecked it. And fabulous. I regained about 30GB of disc space (yes, that IS a G not an M). This is brilliant, it's solved heaps of problems I currently have with my macbook air not having enough room.
Except, there is a slight (ok, not so slight) glitch.
I realised a few hours later, that my blackberry did not seem to be receiving any mail. on further investigation, it appears that Blackberry needs the "All Mail' to be checked.
So - this is the problem. There is only one setting - you can't set it one way for mac mail and one way for Blackberry (the setting is in the gmail settings area, not on any particular device).
So - how can I keep my wonderful slimline mailbox on my mac's but also get my blackberry to work? Any ideas?
(Points to note and thus not bother commenting about ... Yes, I love my blackberry and throwing it away is not an option. Yes, I do have an Android too and love that too, but it's NOT a replacement for the blackberry because onscreen keyboards are crap for typing long messages. And no, I don't want to go back to having two copies of everything on the mac. And yes, I DO need my mail downloaded on the mac so that I can use it on a plane, country with crappy internet, while traveling, on the bus etc etc)
Thanks for any helpful suggestions.