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I am putting my money on the author clicking through the popup on OS X after you login to Gmail.com offering to keep the credentials and use them within the OS. I'll try to find a copy of this screen. IIRC it is clearly different from just Safari saving passwords but it's highly likely that people will click through it.

Edit: here is the screen I am referring to: http://photos2.appleinsidercdn.com/MLSafari2.030512.png

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Wait, so Safari recognizes when you log into Gmail and vaguely offers to let you use Apple Mail instead, which has a history of not working well with Gmail's label and archive system? That's kind of fucked up.

It does indeed. And aside from a few less-than-sane defaults I haven't had any issues with Mail and our Google Apps account at work (though I don't add accounts this way).

I am the OP -- never happened here. I don't use Safari for email, btw.

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