If you use Mail.app integrated with a bunch Gmail accounts, you may also be annoyed by the fact that Apple’s Mail.app does a poor job of handling Gmail’s labels in some cases. For instance, Gmail IMAP messages aren’t actually deleted, they’re stored in the “All Mail” folder along with everything else. Wouldn’t it be nice if deleted messages actually went into Gmail’s trash? They can, and I’ll explain how that’s done.

I’m not a Mail.app user, simply because there’s no reason for me to have my e-mail locally – I much prefer to keep it “in the cloud” on Google’s servers. But it is up to you how you want to organize your e-mail. Obviously, if your provider only supports POP3 and no web interface, then more »

Of course, not all of us are fortunate enough to use a Mac. And for those that don’t – the best free email client is definitely Thunderbird. From the creators of Firefox, the award-winning multi-platform browser, Thunderbird is a very powerful e-mail client and works just as well as Firefox does. Best of all, it more »