I believe that setting you are thinking of is in Gmail.

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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> On 22 Jan 2014, at 13:06, "Christina C." <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There is a setting i use to automatically delete messages in my sent 
> folder/label after 30 days. I am sure this setting is in apple mail but I 
> cannot remember if it is also in gmail. It seems like I remember this setting 
> in gmail. This is how I keep my sent folder from growing so large. :) I do 
> not archive though, I delete so my deleted messages are truly gone and not 
> simply labeled as archive.
> 
> Christina
> Sent from Christina's iMac :)
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey David, One last question. I left a message for the guy I spoke to at 
>> Apple, hopefully he will call me back. Anyway, I just noticed in Mac mail in 
>> my sent folder there are 14000 messages. Can I delete all of these, will 
>> this help? I assume since I am not deleting anything from the All mail 
>> folder anything that I have labeled and put in to what I call a folder will 
>> still be there and remain. And of course, right after I mention how good 
>> mail has been working the busy busy issues have returned a little.
>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:36 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Look at how much you are struggling with the label concept that Gmail 
>>> actually uses. It took me a couple years to get my head around the concept. 
>>> It is difficult to understand because it is so different from any other 
>>> mail handling protocols I have seen. So, I am not surprised that the tech 
>>> support person went down the wrong track. Most people do not understand 
>>> what Gmail actually does.
>>> 
>>> In point of fact, there are no folders in Gmail. There is only one folder 
>>> called all mail. This folder contains every email message.
>>> 
>>> What helped me to understand this was when I switched to the mac and 
>>> learned about virtual folders. A virtual folder does not actually have any 
>>> messages in it. A virtual folder is an index list of all the messages which 
>>> match its criteria. However, when in the virtual folder, email appears and 
>>> handles the same way that it does in any other folder. You are just 
>>> manipulating the message in its original folder, but you are in the virtual 
>>> folder.
>>> 
>>> In Gmail, all folders are virtual except the all mail folder. There is only 
>>> one copy of your message, and it is in the all mail folder. When you access 
>>> it in any other folder, you are using a label index system to access the 
>>> message that is actually only located in the all mail folder. If you should 
>>> move the message from the gmail folder to a local only folder, the message 
>>> is copied from all mail and then deleted from all mail. If you move a 
>>> message from one gmail folder to another gmail folder, the message remains 
>>> in the all mail folder, but its indexing label name is changed. If you copy 
>>> a message from one gmail folder to another gmail folder, the message 
>>> remains in the all mail folder, but it is given a second indexing label.
>>> 
>>> Like I said, it is difficult to get one's head around how it works, so try 
>>> and cut the tech support person a little slack. Even the tech support 
>>> person is only human. Figure out how to understand mac mail's virtual 
>>> mailboxes and the gmail system should start making more sense. Then, if you 
>>> have another problem, you might be able to educate that tech support person 
>>> on something which is extremely confusing. 
>>> 
>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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>>> 
>>>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 9:14, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Well what makes it even more irksome is for the Apple rep to claim it is 
>>>> not a gmail issue, and walk me through a ton of stuff that unfortunately 
>>>> didn’t fix anything, so after I was off the phone with Apple, I deleted my 
>>>> gmail account from mail, and mail worked perfectly fine. Not sure why 
>>>> Apple can’t just admit and be honest that there is still a gmail issue. 
>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:59 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Apple fixed the problems in Gmail for many of their Max. However, after 
>>>>> the Mavericks update was released, some users still reported email 
>>>>> problems. So, Apple continues trying to figure out what is going on. This 
>>>>> is the nature of programming and bugs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>>>> Email: [email protected]
>>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 6:59, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, that is what I thought. Hilarious as now I only get new mail upon 
>>>>>> quitting mail and restarting mail. Very frustrating, and I would have 
>>>>>> never upgraded to Mavericks if I knew the gmail issue was still such a 
>>>>>> problem, so yeah, I am pissed off at Apple for claiming they fixed the 
>>>>>> gmail problem. Very misleading, and I guess you just can’t trust 
>>>>>> anything you hear anymore.
>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you delete mail from All Mail, you will delete everything that is in 
>>>>>>> the inbox, deleted, drafts, sent. So if you do not move or archive mail 
>>>>>>> outside the gmail account, its gone.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I use message filters (not using Mac Mail yet, still on Windows) but 
>>>>>>> gmail is gmail. Before I dump All Mail, I look at the sent folder to 
>>>>>>> see what I want to archive. Then I delete mail from All Mail which 
>>>>>>> takes care of the other mentioned folders. I do this weekly.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Quote of the nanosecond . . .
>>>>>>> The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant 
>>>>>>> duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you 
>>>>>>> say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you 
>>>>>>> dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
>>>>>>> --Boris Pasternak
>>>>>>> Robert & Dreamer Doll  ke7nwn
>>>>>>> E-mail-
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 1/21/2014 7:15 AM, Brian Fischler wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hey Nicholas,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Bingo I think you hit the problem right on the head, as I just looked 
>>>>>>>> at this all mail folder and there are 96,000 messages in it. What the 
>>>>>>>> heck is this folder, as I looked and there are emails I deleted years 
>>>>>>>> ago. Is there a way to manage this folder in any settings or get some 
>>>>>>>> sighted assistance to purge some mail on the gmail website. Where do I 
>>>>>>>> find the activity menu to see what mail is doing? Will explore around 
>>>>>>>> for it, but not sure where it is. Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Nicholas Parsons 
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Bryan,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> First thing, about how many messages altogether do you have in gMail? 
>>>>>>>>> Meaning in your All Mail folder. If it's in the tens of thousands, or 
>>>>>>>>> hundreds of thousands, then I think I know what the problem is.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Second, is your All Mail folder enabled for IMAP? It should be.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I by no means an expert on this issue—I don't think anybody is. There 
>>>>>>>>> seems to be lots of different issues and neither Apple or much of the 
>>>>>>>>> tech community seems to really know or agree on what's going on. But 
>>>>>>>>> what I think is happening is that Mavericks Mail has to re-download 
>>>>>>>>> and reconfigure every message you have in gMail. Most of us have 
>>>>>>>>> plenty of messages, easily in the tens of thousands, and some people 
>>>>>>>>> even have hundreds of thousands. So when you launch Mail after 
>>>>>>>>> recently installing Mavericks, if you show the activity window with 
>>>>>>>>> command-option-0, you'll notice that Mail is busy accessing the gMail 
>>>>>>>>> server and checking and downloading all your messages. Even for a 
>>>>>>>>> reasonably small account this can take a long time. I left my Mac 
>>>>>>>>> online with Mail running but nothing else for a couple of days. This 
>>>>>>>>> seemed to allow it to get up and running. So I'd suggest you close 
>>>>>>>>> every application and stop as many other online services as you can 
>>>>>>>>> from operating, then just open Mail and leave 
>>>>>>> your Mac online for a good long time. Meaning at least 24 hours. Just 
>>>>>>> leave it, and don't do anything else with it, certainly not with Mail. 
>>>>>>> Configure your energy preferences so your Mac doesn't go to sleep. 
>>>>>>> Check the Mail activity every few hours to check that it's making 
>>>>>>> progress. If it seems to have frozen, quit it and re-launch.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Best of luck,
>>>>>>>>> Nic
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:04 pm, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Would love any advice from those of you not having any problems with 
>>>>>>>>>> Gmail and Macmail. After  a day and a half of everything working 
>>>>>>>>>> fine, I had my busy busy problems again. I called Apple and spoke to 
>>>>>>>>>> their VoiceOver people and they kept insisting that my problem 
>>>>>>>>>> wasn’t a gmail and mac mail problem. I connected via remote session 
>>>>>>>>>> with Apple, and the specialist was claiming my issue was caused by 
>>>>>>>>>> my other mail account from go daddy. It took us a good hour to check 
>>>>>>>>>> settings, and mail was constantly caught in a busy loop, after that 
>>>>>>>>>> did nothing, I did a system repair which Apple felt would fix the 
>>>>>>>>>> mail busy issue. I am not going to go in to the bad set of 
>>>>>>>>>> instructions that Apple gave me for a VoiceOVer user to do a repair. 
>>>>>>>>>> So the repair finally finishes and as soon as I launch mail, busy 
>>>>>>>>>> busy busy. I decided to delete my gmail account from mail to see if 
>>>>>>>>>> mail worked with just my go daddy account, and sure enough mail 
>>>>>>>>>> worked fine, so bingo it is definitely a gmail problem. What an
>>>>>>> gers me so much is Apple’s claim that the fix they released in December 
>>>>>>> fixed the gmail and mac mail issue. The whole reason I held off 
>>>>>>> upgrading to Mavericks was because of the gmail issue. Not sure how 
>>>>>>> they can claim the issue is fixed when it is obviously gmail causing my 
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I do have a ton of email in gmail that I keep saved in folders, but 
>>>>>>>>>> this was never an issue with gmail and Lion. Does anyone have any 
>>>>>>>>>> suggestions? I deleted all my trash in mac mail, and this did 
>>>>>>>>>> nothing either. Anyone who has gone through something like this and 
>>>>>>>>>> figured out a fix would love to hear it.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for listening.
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