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Why is a trashed email still in Archive Folder?

I made an email folder in Apple Mail for incoming emails from a certain email address. All incoming emails from this address would go directly to this user made folder. I open an email from this folder, read, and send the email to trash. Why is the same email still in Archive Folder in Apple Mail. I trashed it. I want it gone. Now I must go to Archive to trash it once more. Why? Can I turn this Archive folder OFF?

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), 17,1 Retina 5K 3.3GHz Intel i5

Posted on Mar 12, 2018 5:40 PM

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tygb

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Posted on Mar 12, 2018 9:33 PM

See this thread How to permantl delete messages from Archive in OSX?

If you create a folder on my my Mac section in mail side bar and create a rule that all incoming mails should move to this folder , it will follow .

And you delete the mails From this folder to the trash , they will move to the trash of your gmail account see this article Delete or recover deleted Gmail messages - Computer - Gmail Help

The trash mails can be still saved permanently for sake if you want to read them later , create a second new mail box and select them ( command and A ) , copy them ( command and C ) and paste them ( command and V ) over the folder .

Archiving in web mail is just labelling , they cannot be deleted but can be stopped showing in apple mail application ie . Archive folder , by going to labels in web mail account , and uncheck the box of show mails in IMAP .

Also you can not delete the mails from archive folder of apple mail application , its just a configuration from web mail account to apple mail application ( kind of mirroring ) .

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