Re: Mail questions

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mail questions
Date	2020-08-25 22:19 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnrkb3jt.md7.g.kreme@ProMini.lan> (permalink)
References	<ri3d0b$2bt$1@dont-email.me>

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In message <ri3d0b$2bt$1@dont-email.me> John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> The app Mail, that is.

> I am doing a clean install on my new MacBook Pro, and thought I'd delete 
> tens of thousands of old emails. But no!

> I don't understand how "Important" got set up, nor how to disable it.
> And I am flummoxed a bit by "Archive" in Gmail only.

Mail.app does not have "Important". Sounds like you are using Gmail, and
gmail is its own thing. For one thing, unless you go through very
specific steps, gmail does not delete any email. Ever.

> The problem arises in trying to delete- they keep showing up elsewhere!

This is the gmail way.

Again, nothing to do with Mail.app.

> Can I really delete stuff off of Gmail?

Not really. The only mail that gmail deletes is messages marked spam, and
even then, not automatically.

You can go to the gmail webface, enter a search term, select all the
messages that match, and delete those messages. However, this is 1)
tedious and 2_ may take many hours or days to actually delete them. I
went through this a year or two ago when I scrubbed everything I could
out of google and deleting the mail was onerous and slow.

AFAIK you cannot do this from any mail client, even google's own, it
must be done through the webface,

> No problem with the Apple email account.

Nor will you have this problem with any non-gmail account (well,
possibly Exchange depending on how exchange server is setup. Many
companies do not allow deletion of mail either).

-- 
According to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle, chaos is found in
	greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always
	defeats order, because it is better organized.

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