I use a gmail email address but use Apple Mail and icloud exclusively for managing my email. Apparently, everything I have archived in Apple Mail is also saved in my google account. The google account is nearly full and I don't want to buy google storage. So, I'd like to delete all the messages within google. If I do that, will it affect the messages in my Apple Mail mailboxes?
Hello GNM77,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
We understand that you use Apple Mail on your Mac and have a mail account from Google. Your Google storage is getting full and rather than purchasing additional Google storage, you want to delete the email from there, but want to know if it will affect the mail in your Apple Mail mailbox. Google Mail is an IMAP mail account and what you do on one will be reflected on the other. So, deleting email from Google online, it will also be deleted in the Apple Mail account on your computer.
Best regards.
Hello GNM77,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
We understand that you use Apple Mail on your Mac and have a mail account from Google. Your Google storage is getting full and rather than purchasing additional Google storage, you want to delete the email from there, but want to know if it will affect the mail in your Apple Mail mailbox. Google Mail is an IMAP mail account and what you do on one will be reflected on the other. So, deleting email from Google online, it will also be deleted in the Apple Mail account on your computer.
Best regards.
I was afraid that might be the answer. Thanks very much for a very precise answer to my question. Very helpful.
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