Office '07

I've added my gmail account to Outlook as per the title. I correctly receive all gmail to the gmail sub account listing in Outlook. But that is as far as the account works in accordance with 'regular' Outlook email accounts.

If I delete an entry OL strikes a line through it but leaves the message in place.

If I reply to an email, then look in the gmail sent folder, nothing's there (checking with the recipient, they did get the email).



If I right click an entry and select to block it as spam, OL strikes a line through the message but leaves it in place.

I think you get the picture.

Is there a way to force the gmail sub folder to function similarly to regular email accounts?

Mark

Hitting purge or moving deleted mail to the trash manually may help with part of your problem, but the strikethrough is outlook's way of saying its deleted but not permanently removed from gmail. Same scenario with your spam, it is blocked by outlook but not through gmail and displays with a strikethrough. I'll let you know if I hear of a workaround for this, but as far as I know this is the way IMAP works between outlook and gmail. Make sure you set it up according to "GMAIL's instructions" though.

Here is more info about what outlook actions do in gmail when setup with IMAP:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77657