Question All Mail Folder in GMail!!!!!!!!

[R1945]

I would post this on the Google forums but I never get any good answers.

GMail Pixel 8 app (all GMail mobile apps) is so annoying. Google knows it and does nothing about it.

What is the "All Mail" folder that accumulates emails by the hundred, thousands.

When I delete an email I want it gone, gone forever, not in an All Mail folder.

I want it gone from the GMail IMAP server!

Just noticed I had over 500 emails in the All Mail folder, and was required to get rid them using the Google web browser.

When this going to be fixed. It is really, really, annoying unless I am missing something.

Comments???

 

[rvbfan]

I don't have that issue.

 

[B. Diddy]

It may be due to your default swipe method being Archive rather than Delete. Go to the Gmail app's General Settings, and under "Default email notification action" and "Mail swipe actions", set it to Delete.

 

[mustang7757]

All inbox brings my 3 other accounts together otherwise I have to use primary for each individual

 

[B. Diddy]

Here's a more detailed explanation of the differences between archive and delete: https://yamm.com/blog/gmail-archive-vs-delete/