[Hidden-tech] Apple Mail/GMail question

[Stephen Michel]

Probably not.

I haven't used GMail for a while so take this with a grain of salt, but 
I believe that GMail now has automatic filters into tabs like 
"promotions", etc. However, I believe this is only cosmetic — while 
they are shown differently, they are actually all stored in the inbox. 
So when you connect with an external program like Apple Mail, it sees 
the emails from all these "automatic filters". It would not affect any 
emails that you've archived (that actually *is* moving to a different 
folder), so if you don't care about anything in those other tabs, it 
would be fine to delete.

Again, I don't have a GMail account, so this is more of an educated 
guess; I would appreciate if someone who uses GMail & an external 
client could confirm.
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 19:20, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss 
<hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> I never use the Apple Mail program on my 2015 MacBook Air running 
> High Sierra 10.13.6, but apparently I configured it at some point. 
> Somehow it just got set to chime every time an email went in, so I 
> went in to change the setting--and found 440,000 messages there!
> 
> My question: If I empty the Apple Mail inbox, will all these messages 
> still be in GMail where I want and need them?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
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