Archive folder in Apple Mail is heavily populated

Thanks Gary. All your help is much appreciated... bob

Ooops... Hate caling someone by the wrong name... My apologies.

Thanks Glenn... The help was much appreciated... bob

Hmmm, I fear i solved one problem but created a new one. I use Apple Mail on my mac and on that client I like to BCC myself on all mail I send. It's just an easy way for me to keep up with what I've sent to whom. I then either delete those bcc's if the mail isn't important but more often I file those bcc's into one of many subfolders I have for various topics. Works well.

I have for years had both comcast.net and gmail.com email accounts. Now I am in the process of switching over to frontier.com for my ISP as comcast service has gone downhill where I now live. For the moment, I have all three accounts but soon I will close the comcast.net accounts and continue on with the gmail and frontier. And I'm trying to lean more on using gmail accounts these days.

After recently changing gmail settings as directed in this thread by Glenn to get rid of the huge Archive mail folder (full of only gmail emails) on Apple Mail, I now have noticed that I can send an email from comcast.net, gmail.com or frontier.com with my normal BCC and that BCC shows up for the first and the third but NOT for the gmail account.

Any ideas as to why I am not receiving BCC emails in Apple Mail when sent from a Gmail account??? thanks...

And by the way, I think the settings in gmail, in my opinion, are far too many and hence too confusing to be truly useful. I like gmail but not the settings part... Just my opinion... bob

Hi Glenn, Yes, the supposed bcc'd email IS in my Sent mail folder... Last night, to avoid the confusion of sending emails to myself, I sent three "toss these" emails to my wife, one from each of the three different domains, comcast.net, gmail.com and frontier.com. By sending those to her, I had only to look for one copy, the bcc'd copy, to show up in my Apple Mail.

When I wrote each email and changed the "from" from one to the next of the three above mentioned domains, I noticed that, as expected, a BCC showed up in the bcc line of each email with the correct email address for the given domain. I then sent all three, one at a time, to my wife. Waited a minute or two and back came TWO of the bcc's, with only the gmail email not present.

So all three show up in Sent. Only two showed up as BCC's. Gotta be one of those 400 gmail settings. Now to figure out which one.

Again, I have a desire to begin moving more fully to gmail but would like to maintain the ability to use BCC.

Holler if you think of something interesting to try as a test.

thanks... bob

Perhaps I too should move away rather than toward gmail. I was just trying to use as primary an email domain that was not tied to my ISP such that if I leave the ISP, I don't have to change a lot of email addresses out in the world. Might have to revisit that plan. Thanks for the help. If I post a new question (no time right now), I will come here and share the link so you can watch it if you wish.

thanks much... bob

Hi, I followed what Glenn Leblanc offered. See what I posted as an answer under my original post. This got rid of the large Archive folders that existed for each of my Gmail account. However, I cannot say that doing so really fixed the sluggishness of Apple Mail. I think it's better but still not great. Sometimes, when I shut down, Apple Mail still takes a while to quit. Though sometimes it closes quickly. Not sure what's up with Apple Mail these days... So the solution Glenn Leblanc offered got rid of the large Archive Folders but Apple Mail still has issues...

bob...