Are deleted Mail messages actually gone or are they still stored somewhere?
I’ve had this question for a long time and I’ve tried looking it up multiple times and never found a satisfactory answer. Here goes:
I have my Gmail account set up as IMAP on my Macbook and I’ve noticed that if I delete an Email but then get another Email from the same person it brings the original Email back as well. Is this because the original is still stored on my machine somewhere? Is it because the original is stored on Gmail somewhere and the response re-downloads the initial Email as well?
I thought that an IMAP account synced my Mail account and my web mail account. So if I delete an Email in one place it should be gone in both, but it’s not. I want to know if somewhere there’s a huge cache of “deleted” Emails either on my machine or in Gmail taking up a lot of unnecessary space.
Thanks.