Google has been doing things this way for over 10 years. So, Email clients have some knowledge of this and even though you can see the listing of all those messages, they won’t be downloaded to your system unless you click on them.
So the best thing to do is just ignore the folder, except perhaps for cleanup purposes. > On Aug 30, 2025, at 10:28 AM, Kay Malmquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > That’s what seems to be the case and I was really hoping somebody would say > no go ahead. It’s all good. So you have this massive duplication of emails > and it doesn’t make a bit of sense. Oh well. So be it. I guess I’ll leave it > alone. > Kay Malmquist > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 30, 2025, at 9:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > This is a Google feature and no when you see all mail. It really means all > mail in any mailbox so if you delete it from there, you delete it from > everywhere. > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 29, 2025, at 10:48 PM, [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> In the standard email client in the iPhone, there is a box titled all mail. >> What is the purpose of that box? I notice that it seems to have all the >> emails in it that have been put in other folders and when you delete one, it >> also disappears from the folder that it has been moved to as well. I have >> many folders and right now the all mail folder has over 3000 emails in it. >> Is there any way to remove all these emails without them being removed from >> other folders? If someone could explain this to me, I’d really appreciate >> it. 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