'All Mail' box gone from gmail account in MacMail

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'All Mail' box gone from gmail account in MacMail

I can no longer see the 'all mail' folder for my gmail account in MacMail. For this mailbox in particular, I delete all mail messages when I am done with them--but Google wants to hold onto them and when I'm on the phone they get archived instead. So I like to clean-house by deleting everything from All Mail regularly.

As of a few months ago--I really don't know if this was with my switch to High Sierra (current OS) or an update since--I cannot see that 'All Mail' box in Mail on my Mac. It is still there in gmail via web browser.

Deleting and adding back the account and rebuilding my gmail mailbox in Mail have not helped. Creating a folder and calling it 'all mail' does not give it the property of displaying the archived messages I'm trying to kill.

Any other solutions to this continuing annoyance?

Posted on Feb 24, 2019 12:03 PM

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Barney-15E

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Feb 24, 2019 3:13 PM in response to Donot Haveone

The All Mail label in Gmail is mapped to the Archive folder.

Unless you like deleting twice, you can configure Gmail to delete messages you delete instead of saving them for information harvesting.

I also turn of All Mail in IMAP so I don't have to see it and it doesn't waste space on my Mac.

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Feb 24, 2019 12:11 PM in response to Donot Haveone

Maybe I am missing something—in Mojave anyway there is no "All Mail" High Sierra I can not test

If you have no mail then it is quite possible the mailbox will not show, until new mail comes.

Test by sending yourself an email.

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Donot Haveone Author

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Feb 24, 2019 3:52 PM in response to leroydouglas

It's not about seeing things in the inbox--it's about how google archives 'deleted' messages in a special 'all mail' folder, and that's what I couldn't see to empty from Mail.

But I think I have it fixed now from the gmail side as described in Barney's post.

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Feb 24, 2019 3:54 PM in response to Donot Haveone

It's not about seeing things in the inbox--it's about how google archives 'deleted' messages in a special 'all mail' folder, and that's what I couldn't see to empty from Mail.

But I think I have it fixed now from the gmail side as described in Barney's post.

Thanks— we can all see the post in the discussion.

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Donot Haveone Author

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Feb 24, 2019 3:50 PM in response to Barney-15E

This looks like a better solution, thank you so much!

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'All Mail' box gone from gmail account in MacMail

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