To get a cleaner look in Apple Mail, it’s essential to play with the Google Gmail settings. That is principally about telling Gmail to NOT sync all the things through IMAP.
My expertise is that utilizing Apple Mail (consumer) guidelines isn’t the way in which to manage Gmail.
The principle supply of confusion is between Folders and Labels. Apple Mail (like different IMAP shoppers) has e mail sorted into Folders. Gmail refers to those as Labels. However, much more confusingly, Gmail places a couple of Label on every message. Synchronising all Labels with Apple Mail Folders causes messages to be loaded into a number of Apple Mail Folders.
To start out fixing this navigate to Settings (in Gmails net interface), and choose the Labels tab. Disable IMAP sync in a number of the “Present in IMAP” tick bins. It’s best to uncover what fits you, however I’ve this:
A couple of feedback on my settings:
- All Mail, if enabled, duplicates all the things into an All Mail folder.
- Drafts is matter of style as as to if draft emails are saved simply in Apple Mail or synchronised to Gmail servers – I hold them native and so disable IMAP for Drafts.
- Decrease down, I disable [Google Mail]/Despatched Mail, [Imap]/Archive and [Imap]/Drafts. Despatched mail is already synchronised in System Labels part. Archive is one more duplication (like All Mail).
- After all, you do wish to synchronise Folders/Labels which you could have created in Apple Mail. I’ve an extended record of those.
Undergo what annoys you most and disable slowly – take a look at every change.
Word, that I’ve no objection to the way in which Gmail makes use of Labels. It really works effectively for these utilizing the net interface.
Relating to Spam, you may disable IMAP for the Spam label. However you then danger lacking real messages which have been labelled Spam. My price of Spam with Gmail could be very low – maybe another person can touch upon their expertise with Gmail and Spam.