How do I delete Windows Live Mail in Gmail?

[pageyboy]

Hello, I have just managed to successfully import all my mail and folders from my windows live account into gmail. I have also added my windows live mail address to gmail so that gmail checks this and adds any incoming mail into my gmail account so that I can read all my mail in one place.

What I want to know is how can I delete messages from my windows live account in gmail so that they actually delete in my windows live account as well.

Thanks.

 

[Roderunner]

Hi pageyboy, it should be possible from 'settings'. As you have a Live Mail address, it would have been easier using W Live mail (signed in) then access Gmail with it using POP3.

 

[pageyboy]

Thanks fo rthe response. I have looked at settings for both my live account and gmail and can't find an option anywhere. I am obviously over looking something. The reason I am using gmail as my main email is because I got a galaxy s2 phone and emails display great through it. Windows live emails don't show up so good on it.

 

[Roderunner]

Can you post an image of Gmail settings page on the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab. Remember to hide sensitive data.

 

[pageyboy]

Here is the settings page as you requested.

 

[Roderunner]

Please excuse my silence, as I've got my foot in my mouth. I have just re read your first post.
1 Remove the account you added to Gmail.
2 Add both accounts to Windows Live Mail.
Now for the tricky bit. In your Gmail, POP & IMAP are both enabled. How do you access your mail, home PC only or other. (As both are Web based, they can be accessed on any PC by usual method) In WLM, I prefer accessing Gmail using POP, so if IMAP is not required, disable it.
I have Gmail set to delete mail when accessed using POP, (their are other options) but can still access it in Gmail if needed.
Now to your Windows mail account. I don't use mine in WLM except to sign in, then I get auto access to my contacts, and 'Safe + Blocked' sender features. If windows mail messages are deleted from WLM, I don't know if they remain as Google does or not.
Hope this makes sense.

 

[pageyboy]

Please excuse my silence, as I've got my foot in my mouth. I have just re read your first post.
1 Remove the account you added to Gmail.
2 Add both accounts to Windows Live Mail.
Now for the tricky bit. In your Gmail, POP & IMAP are both enabled. How do you access your mail, home PC only or other. (As both are Web based, they can be accessed on any PC by usual method) In WLM, I prefer accessing Gmail using POP, so if IMAP is not required, disable it.
I have Gmail set to delete mail when accessed using POP, (their are other options) but can still access it in Gmail if needed.
Now to your Windows mail account. I don't use mine in WLM except to sign in, then I get auto access to my contacts, and 'Safe + Blocked' sender features. If windows mail messages are deleted from WLM, I don't know if they remain as Google does or not.
Hope this makes sense.

Excuse my ignorance, but what you are proposing above, will this allow to access all my mail through Gmail, and be able to delete WLM through Gmail as well. My main objective is to get all my mail through my new phone via Gmail and to save me logging into two accounts. I don't like the way I log into WLM on my phone and it displays my mail. Its a bit messy and buggy. Thats why I want to use Gmail as my main mail account and be able to delete mail through Gmail from my Windows Live account if this is possible.

 

[pageyboy]

Also if your answer is yes to the above will I then need to download and install WLM on my computer?

Thanks.

 

[Roderunner]

How do you access Gmail on your phone, IMAP or POP ?

 

[pageyboy]

How do you access Gmail on your phone, IMAP or POP ?

I'll be honest with you here I am not sure. It was already preinstalled on my phone when I got it. My phone has a little gmail icon, I click on it and I am there. I particularly like it due to the way it displays emails. When I go through the internet on my phone and then log onto windows live, and then my account, a lot of the links don't work properly like "move to," and even "delete." Using gmail saves me time logging in and if will be able to work with emails better when I am mobile.

 

[Roderunner]

I've just looked at your image again and I'm not certain how to set IMAP options. What folders show on accessing mail on your phone ?.
I have Gmail delete when mail is accessed using POP. This is my WLM folders for Gmail, are yours the same on your phone ?.


If you have more, its IMAP.

 

[pageyboy]

All my WL folders show, thankfully. The only thing I cannot do yet if it can be done at all is delete WL mail through Gmail and that it actually deletes in my WL account itself.

 

[Joan Archer]

Just a thought from me but on your accounts do you have the setting ticked to leave a message on the server ?

 

[roncerr]

All my WL folders show, thankfully. The only thing I cannot do yet if it can be done at all is delete WL mail through Gmail and that it actually deletes in my WL account itself.

It sounds like you are using the phrase "WL Mail" to refer to the webmail service Microsoft provides known as "Hotmail". It's analogous to Google's webmail service called "gmail". So it sounds like you want to keep your Hotmail address while using gmail to access all your messages. So instead of having gmail take the lead to "check your messages" you should instead have Hotmail take the lead and "forward your messages". If you do that your Hotmail Inbox will always be empty since every email sent to it will be forwarded to your gmail address. Now, no matter how you get your mail (over the web, on a phone, on a PC running an email program like WLM) you just set up an account on that device for your gmail address and don't set up an account on that device for Hotmail. Of course, you can if you want to but that inbox will always be empty.

 

[pageyboy]

All my WL folders show, thankfully. The only thing I cannot do yet if it can be done at all is delete WL mail through Gmail and that it actually deletes in my WL account itself.

It sounds like you are using the phrase "WL Mail" to refer to the webmail service Microsoft provides known as "Hotmail". It's analogous to Google's webmail service called "gmail". So it sounds like you want to keep your Hotmail address while using gmail to access all your messages. So instead of having gmail take the lead to "check your messages" you should instead have Hotmail take the lead and "forward your messages". If you do that your Hotmail Inbox will always be empty since every email sent to it will be forwarded to your gmail address. Now, no matter how you get your mail (over the web, on a phone, on a PC running an email program like WLM) you just set up an account on that device for your gmail address and don't set up an account on that device for Hotmail. Of course, you can if you want to but that inbox will always be empty.

Thanks for the response. I will look at this as another option. You are right. I am referring to hotmail and I apologise to those who are trying to help if there has been any confusion created on my part. I use gmail as my main email address for friends and family, and I use hotmail for all the other stuff. I could set up hotmail so that it could forward all messages. I just thought there was a way to have gmail access hotmail and also delete messages here and in hotmail if I choose to. I have set up my phone so that it accesses gmail through its preinstalled shortcut. I have also set my phone so that it accesses hotmail through the email shortcut on my phone which is seperate. This email option on my phone checks my hotmail messages and only certain folders and does not delete the messages if I want to do this.

I can and have done set up gmail to check both hotmail and gmail for messages and it reads all folders in hotmail but won't delete them from hotmail. I looked into what Joan suggested and there was an option for leave messages on server after checking. I left this ticked as I didn't want all messages transfered across to gmail and then deleted automatically if this is what it does. I thought there would be an easy option to do what I was wanting to do but I cant seem to find it. It looks like I will have to leave it set up the way I have on my phone. Then when I get home I log into hotmail seperatly and delete them.