if i disable sync gmail, changes i make on the phone is still reflected on the pc client
how does that make a difference?

what changes that you make on the phone?

i assume you're disabling the download sync, eg polling the server. but if you make changes to the account, email someone, create labels, etc then you're doing a push to the server. obv your desktop will see that.

If I delete an email on my phone, email on desktop also get deleted even sync is disabled

right, push vs poll. the only reason to disable sync is for processor/network reasons so you dont have polling in the background. any push action (send mail, delete mail, move mail, etc) still work.

if you want a truly offline copy, then you must export the data that you can modify.

so the only thing it does is stop email from coming in? but if i delete existing emails it still gets deleted on server

this thread suffers from the same problem as your other thread...you have reading comprehension problems. i see you're in canada. i'm guessing french is your native language and not english?

i think the auto sync option is just for polling / pulls. any change you make to the server is a push to the server. any change made on the server requires a pull to come down to the client. so any change you make on the client is going to be reflected on the server regardless of sync option. but any change you make on the server isn't going to be reflected on your client. changes on the server include: labels, deleting emails, creating email, receiving emails, moving emails, etc

but i didnt write the app and i haven't read the documentation. so either you can test it out or google around to find documention or if anyone else tested it

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jul 4 2013 09:57am

here is what i did. i have 1 email on computer and my phone. i disable sync on my phone, delte the email, the computer email gets deleted, like u said
however, when i go to the computer, go to the trash can, and move that email back to the inbox, i go to my phone, that email is back into my inbox, with sync disable. that is not what u said

i'm trying on my galaxy note 2. i disabled the auto sync. then i deleted a message on my desktop. i manually synced phone to let it delete there. then i moved it from the trash back to inbox on my desktop. also sent email to myself and deleted another message. it's been 20 minutes and my phone hasn't changed. it's still different from desktop

you sure you're not manually syncing? your app might sync when you start the app.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jul 4 2013 10:36am

r u saying the delted email will never appear on ur phone if u don't manually sync or it will appear eventually just not as quickly if u had sync enabled