Hi Mo and Andrew Thanks to your input both, I have now got rid of my back-log of messages. It's a bit of a long way round for a shortcut, but I checked all the messages, then deleted them in the way you suggested Andrew. Now my various folders in Outlook are cleaned out. I still wish I could have them come into my regular Inbox like all my other subscriptions are set to do, since I have rules assigned so each list has its own folder. But, hey, that's got rid of what I don't need for now, and I'll just keep on top of the traffic on the Gmail page now I know what happens. Thanks guys, great stuff. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns -----Original Message----- From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mobeen Iqbal Sent: 01 January 2013 17:25 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Two more Gmail questions Hi Jackie. I'm not sure if i'm understanding you correctly, so please bare with me. I too can't seem to find an option to mark all the messages via the web, it must be a GMail bug. i'd hit control A to select all in the list view in outlook, and hit delete. The difference between pop and imap essentially is that pop was designed to download mail from a server to your computer, then the mail would either be deleted from the server or remain there for ever regardless if you deleted it on your PC, unless you expressly set server options manually. Imap is a lot more versitile. any actions you carry out on your PC are replicated in realtime to your mail on the server, its a lot more efficient. so in other words, unless you set outlook to keep a copy of mail on the server its deleted or moved to trash. you can also access all your folders via imap more efficiently, copy mail between folders, etc so the long and short of it is you've made an excellent choice by using imap. Also, if you use other devices and set your mail up via imap, any actions carried out on your other devices are also automatically carried out on your PC because it'll syncronise. I hope this all makes sense? what did you have trouble with when deleting using outlook? to speed things up, i'm more than happy to give you a call at your convenience so we can discuss this, just drop me a note off list. all the best, Mo. On 01/01/2013 16:42, Jackie Cairns wrote: > Could I possibly ask two more Gmail questions please? > > Firstly, does anyone know how to delete Emails on the Gmail web page? > Now I have created an account in Outlook, thanks to the very good > instructions on a link Mo provided, I can now read my messages, but am > unable to delete them. I can't seem to find the box to check them all > on the website so I can delete them from the server, and I can't > delete them from Outlook in the same way I can with all stuff in > folders from my regular Inbox. I hope this makes sense. > > Secondly, what is the difference between Imap and Pop, apart from the > protocols? I opted to route my Gmail account to Outlook 2003 using > Imap, and just wonder what the difference is in using it instead of Pop. > > Thanks. > > Kind Regards, > > Jackie Cairns > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq