With over a billion active users worldwide, Gmail is the most used email service out there. Most of us only care about the ‘Inbox’ folder where we receive our regular emails. But there’s also an ‘All Mail’ folder that most people don’t know much about. What is it, how do you access it, and should you delete emails from the All Mail folder? Let’s find out.
How do you find the All Mail folder in Gmail?
As the name suggests, the All Emails folder contains all of our emails, including those in the Inbox, Sent, Draft, and Scheduled folders. However, these are not separate folders unto themselves, and they aren't "folders" to begin with.
When your Gmail account receives an email, it only receives one copy. However, you will see the same email appear in multiple locations. This is because Gmail uses "Labels" to categorize emails, not folders. So a given email can appear both in your "Inbox" and under "Important Messages." You can also have additional labels and see the same email under those labels. But it is only one copy of the email appearing under multiple labels.
The only emails that won't be in All Mail are emails marked as spam, emails in the Categories section (Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums), and the Trash. No matter what the labels are, there's only one copy of an email in Gmail.
