Thanks Nick. Hopefully I am not the only one who feels like their head is going to explode over something as basic as email. On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
