Deleting emails from Gmail

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Let me preface this by saying I am running this in 2019r2.1.

I am having issues deleting emails from a Gmail account I have connected to a Pop3SecureSocket. I have an event handler set up for MessageDeleted and do get a return when I call Pop3SecureSocket.deletemessage(mailID) but if I check the account, the email has not been deleted. I did notice that deletemessage seems to be depreciated with no replacement. I have also tried SendComamnd(“DELE”) with the appropriate ID but this also does not seem to work.

Is there currently a way to delete an email from a Gmail account?

Thanks

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I did notice that deletemessage seems to be depreciated with no replacement.

online docu said from 2020r1 it is .RemoveMessageAt(Index as Integer)
.DeleteMessage deprecated in version 2019r2

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a) Don’t use Xojo’s classes for emails at all because their functionality is either basic or buggy.
b) Why are you using POP and not IMAP for Gmail?
b) For IMAP I either add the deleted flag or move the email to a trash mailbox.

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Have you tried flagging the message as Read before deleting it?
At least, this work for me in Xojo desktop apps.

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Some combination of setting Gmail’s POP setting to delete Gmail’s copy of the email when accessed by POP, sending DELE commands after parsing each email and finally sending a “QUIT” at the end of this has solved my issue.

Thanks for the replies!