Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Christopher Chaltain
experience with Gmail, before deciding to use it on my phone. Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - *From:* David Chittenden <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com> *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
very little experience with Gmail, before deciding to use it on my phone. Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - *From:* David Chittenden <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com> *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread David Chittenden
very little > experience with Gmail, before deciding to use it on my phone. > > Arnold Schmidt > - Original Message - > From: David Chittenden > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49 PM > Subject: Re: general question about the all mail f

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Regina Alvarado
le experience with Gmail, before deciding to use it on my phone. Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49 PM Subject: Re: general question about the all mail folder Google doesn't actually use folder

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Archived messages go into all mail. However if you turn that off, then they are deleted, moved to Trash where they live for up to 30 days. -- Raul A. Gallegos My mother + my father - condom = the most amazing human being alive. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/26/2013

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
gmail.com> *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49 PM *Subject:* Re: general question about the all mail folder Google doesn't actually use folders. It uses flags. The all mail folder is the place wher

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Christopher Chaltain
legroups.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49 PM *Subject:* Re: general question about the all mail folder Google doesn't actually use folders. It uses flags. The all mail folder is the place where all your mail actually exists. Your best option is to leave all mail alo

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Arnold Schmidt
I have had very little experience with Gmail, before deciding to use it on my phone. Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: David Chittenden To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:49 PM Subject: Re: general question about the all mail folder Google d

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread David Chittenden
Google doesn't actually use folders. It uses flags. The all mail folder is the place where all your mail actually exists. Your best option is to leave all mail alone. Work in your folders. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 2

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Christopher Chaltain
The archive messages should go into an archive folder. As Raul says, every message you have in Gmail is in the All Mail folder. This can be useful when looking for a message, but you don't know what folder it might be in. I turn archiving off on my phone and just delete the messages I don't

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Tammy Freitag
Where does the archived messages go? Thanks! On 3/26/13, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi, you will want to leave the all mail folder alone for most cases. > It's the backbone of your gmail emails. In terms of folders, for the > most part, gmail calls those labels. So, if you have messages in your >

Re: general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, you will want to leave the all mail folder alone for most cases. It's the backbone of your gmail emails. In terms of folders, for the most part, gmail calls those labels. So, if you have messages in your inbox, or inside any other so-called folder, the message is actually stored in the all

general question about the all mail folder

2013-03-26 Thread Paul and Paula Jordan
Hi, yesterday I decided to delete all my sent mail. I had a year's worth and I did them one at a time. I'll make sure to delete them more regularly after this experience! As I was looking at my folders I came across the all mail folder. There were some very odd things like test messages an