I'm using mac mail v7.3 in mavericks on an iMac. I'm trying to trim the size of my inbox and SENT mailboxes using Message > Remove attachments. First I sort, say, the inbox by size to identify the largest messages. I select a message — even a single message not in a larger thread — and click Message > Remove attachments. Zing! The whole message disappears from the inbox. Then if I search for it, I find it in "All Messages", not th e inbox, and it still has the attachments! Same thing if the message started in SENT — it gets moved to "All Messages". This is a pain because my goal was to strip the attachments, then save the message to a specific mailbox quickly and efficiently; I can't seem to do either!
Mac mail “remove attachments” moves message, but doesn’t remove attachments
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Best Answer
You have a gmail account in your Apple mail.
Gmail has something called "All mail", where it automatically stores all mail.
When you enable that in the gmail Settings - Labels -
Show in IMAP
, it will show in your Apple Mail as "Archive" folder aka All Mail.If you disable it it will no longer show in Apple Mail, but it will remain in Google gmail.