Darcy, I am using Imap and actually had the All Mail hidden previously. I can hide it again, I just wondered why it exists. Everything in the All Mail folder is also in my Inbox or other mailboxes I have set up, right?
Thanks for the information, Linda On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: > Linda, are you using pop or imap with gmail? If you're using imap, you can > have gmail just not show you the all mail folder. I can't remember the name > of it, but there is a google labs feature you enable that gives you more > control over what mailboxes are shown with imap. This is what I did, and I > don't see the all mail folder. > There's a great article from tidbits on how best to set up gmail with mac > mail. > Here is the url. > http://db.tidbits.com/article/10253 > HTH. > Darcy > > On 2010-11-09, at 11:52 AM, David Hole wrote: > >> Hi Linda. >> I'll just add that the reason for this "All Mail"-folder is that this folder >> is where all mails ends when you click Archive when using the web-interface >> in gmail. >> I don't know how much you know about how gmail handles mail, but in short, >> the folders is known as labels. When a mail is found only in "All Mail", it >> means that it has no labels. Inbox for example, is a label, like the one you >> have called Macvisionaries when using Google terminology. >> -David >> Den 09.11.2010 17:21, skrev Linda Adams: >>> Carolyn, >>> >>> Now why didn't I think of that. I've used command A for other purposes. >>> The folder is now empty. Thanks again. >>> >>> Linda >>> >>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Carolyn wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Linda: >>>> Find that all-mail mailbox. Go over to messages. Interact with messages, >>>> go to subject. Do command A to select all, and press delete. VO should >>>> then say, "no rows selected." >>>> HTH >>>> Carolyn >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: Linda Adams >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:38 AM >>>> Subject: Apple Mail and Google >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> Today I noticed my top level Gmail mailbox was collapsed. When I >>>> expanded it I found over 6,000 messages in my "All Mail" folder. Of >>>> course, the very same messages had already been in my Inbox or my >>>> Macvisionaries mail box and had already been read and deleted. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to delete all of them in one fell swoop. When I switched >>>> to thread mode, there are still over 1,000. I checked the menus and >>>> elsewhere but found nothing to empty a specific mailbox? >>>> >>>> Also, is it possible to just prevent messages going to 2 mailboxes at the >>>> same time or delete this "All Mail" mailbox or is that not advisable? >>>> >>>> As always, thanks for your information and advice. >>>> >>>> Linda >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >>>> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >>>> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
