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You may lose archiving this way
Authored by: hodgjy on Fri, Apr 18 2008 at 9:14AM PDT

You don't lose archiving. Every message that is ever sent or deleted remains in Gmail's "All Mail" folder. The duplicates in IMAP/Sent and IMAP/Trash are removed, but the originals remain in All Mail. You do lose the ability to drag a message from a folder to Gmail's Trash folder to permanently delete it from within Mail.app, but this doesn't affect me. I don't delete any messages, which is part of the allure of Gmail. YMMV.