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Mail App & Gmail?

I use Apple's mail.app for everyday email, and had been using it for business purposes as well. But now with a job shift I needed a new, non-private email address and got a gmail account. The question is, am I better off operating gmail through the mail.app interface? Or reserving mail.app for regular personal stuff and moving all the business (publishing) stuff over to gmail? Or forwarding everything from gmail to mail.app? Or? Or?

I've read everything I could find on the subject, and while it's been informative it hasn't nudged me toward a useful either/or. I'll be dealing with a lot of incoming manuscripts that want reading and responding and rejecting or filing away for future use. Previously this stuff came to me via an intermediary; now it'll come directly to my gmail address, published on the publisher's website.

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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I've followed Carla's instructions about...

I've followed Carla's instructions about how to use Gmail's POP access, etc. and it's working great -- with one little snag.

Is there any way to avoid downloading all of the new messages from my Gmail account? I'm subscribed to a mailing list with pretty heavy traffic, and I'd just as soon leave those archived at Gmail and never have them downloaded to Mail.app. I've set up a filter in Gmail that tells it to "Skip Inbox" and "Archive" messages from that mailing list, but it seems that they still get downloaded to Mail.app when I POP in.

The closest workaround I've come up with so far is to add a rule in Mail.app that says to immediately trash those mail messages when it downloads them -- but it will still of course download them first, which is a drag.

Any ideas on how to work around this?

 
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