Just to add a few points… I believe that if you deleted messages in your Sent mailbox that these messages would actually be deleted, and would not still be found in All Mail. Although the Sent mailbox is just a label, deleting a message with the Sent label would remove the Sent label, apply the Trash/Bin label and tell Google to expunge it from the server in the time frame you set in the settings/preferences. If, on the other hand you archive instead of delete, which I do by pressing command-control-a, the Sent label would be removed and the message would only live on in the All Mail folder with no custom labels. With other email providers, and with gMail prior to Mavericks, archiving a message in Apple Mail by pressing command-control-a would create a folder (or, in gMail's case, a label) called ‘Archive’ if one did not already exist and move the message to that Archive mailbox. JOe Kissell has written a number of Macworld and TidBits articles as well as a couple of books about gMail, IMAP and Apple devices. I highly recommend these to anyone who wants to learn more about how gMail actually handles your email. For something which you would think should be fairly simple like email, it's actually really quite complicated. Understanding it really helps to manage your email effectively. Having said that, I still do not use gMail for all my most important email. But it works well for subscriptions, account creation and email lists. Cheers, Nic
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