Stop copying emails to "All Mail" folder
Please Please Please advise how to modify settings to stop copying emails to "All Mail" folder. There are nearly 14K emails in that folder, and it's killing my capacity, I'm getting warnings, etc. Yes, I'm using Gmail.
Yes, I have unsubcribed from it, starting from my account name → Subscribe → unchecked [Gmail] All Mail. To no avail...
Of course, I do not want to delete mails I have saved in my hundreds of other folders. My mail goes back 25+ years, and I want to keep those archives.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
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Gmail does that, not Thunderbird, whether subscribed or not. That is why it is called 'all mail.'
Hello David, Thank you for your lightening fast review and reply. However, I already know that Gmail does this. I was not implicating Thunderbird. I've already tried several remedies to no avail. That is why I posted.
Your reply while fast, does not address my issues. I need relief from this BS / Nonsense duplicating emails.
Thank you.
The only solution I am aware of is to offload part of the gmail account to another account or to PC. You can't stop Gmail, as allmail is actually the only 'real' folder there. You could set up a second account, then COPY messages to the other account and then DELETE from originating account. Either that or copy to PC in Local Folders and then delete.
This is mind-boggling that T-bird cannot force Gaggle into submission. Nevertheless, I trust your expertise as I see you're a "Top 10 Contributor". If/When this bothers me enough, or causes technical issues on my machine, I will pursue your advice.
Thanks again David.
Thank you for your kind words, but Thunderbird is just an email client, standing to the sidelines, sending and receiving per user server settings. It is actually quite stupid, and that is its strength. The focus of developers is more on making updates as needed to stay in compliance with whatever Google does, not the other way around. :) Take care.
You're welcome. Thanks for the additional detail.
One more thing I forgot to mention - I've manually deleted (Ctrl-Del) emails about 4x from that All Mail folder, but stupid Gaggle keeps re-loading them. Just can't seem to get rid of them... Please confirm if that's your understand of "normal" Gmail behavior.
Thanks again
michael73gardner said
You're welcome. Thanks for the additional detail. One more thing I forgot to mention - I've manually deleted (Ctrl-Del) emails about 4x from that All Mail folder, but stupid Gaggle keeps re-loading them. Just can't seem to get rid of them... Please confirm if that's your understand of "normal" Gmail behavior. Thanks again
After deleting files from All Mail, you also need to delete them from Trash.
In deleting from a gmail account, you should delete from the folder in which you have the message stored, such as inbox, sent, etc. Gmail then deletes from AllMail. Attempting to delete directly from the mother file isn't advised. Deleting from Allmail works only (from my experience) when the message exists nowhere else.
Hello Ed: Thank you. Yes, of course I delete from Trash folder. However, most of the time, I don't need to, because I do a (Ctrl-Del) which bypasses the Trash folder; it simply deletes emails.
David: I always delete emails from my Inbox first, then find them in All Mail and delete. The problem is that Gmail re-downloads them to All Mail. Every time. That's what's driving me mad. I currently have 13,817 emails in All Mail, and continue to get data size warnings from Thunderbird.
As I mentioned, I've "unsubscribed" from [Gmail]/All Mail in T-bird settings, to no avail.
Puzzling. I suggest logging on to Gmail and see what happens there when you delete. I also suggest checking if you can set Gmail to empty trash more frequently. Deleting from inbox should be sufficient.