Yes and no.

The FOLDER will always be kept by Gmail.  On the Gmail site, you can 
control whether or not it is visible in IMAP (which causes most mail 
clients to download its contents automatically).

The All Mail folder always contains every non-deleted, non-spam email 
in your Gmail account.  The only way to get messages out of there is 
to delete them or mark them as spam.  By default, the Gmail way is to 
"Archive" messages (which leaves them in All Mail, possibly forever, 
waiting for Gmail to benevolently use them only for your benefit 
supposedly.  And if you believe that at this point, I've got a 
perfect isotropic antenna to sell you.)

I was just saying that emptying your inbox and other tags of all 
messages and then emptying trash and spam folders as well won't get 
rid of the messages that have been "Archived".  You must do that 
explicitly in your All Mail folder.

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:58:13PM -0400, Dave Marthouse wrote:
>In other words you must go to the gmail site and remove the mail or can you
>just remove it from your computer and that will remove it from their site.
>
>Dave Marthouse N2AAM
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