Mail storage and delete

Hi,
I have just set up my Mail app yesterday. The Mail will connect into my Gmail account to retrieve my emails. So, I am wondering, are my emails from Gmail downloaded into my MacBook by Mail app? So, when I delete the emails in Mail, does it delete those on the hard disk??
Thanks

Hello Stanley.
The only way to access a Gmail account with any email client such as the Mail.app is as a POP type account so yes incoming or received messages are downloaded to your MacBook by the Mail.app and stored on the hard drive.
If you have selected move messages marked for deletion to the account's trash mailbox which is available under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences, messages marked for deletion in the account's Inbox or Sent mailbox will be moved to the account's Trash mailbox first located under Trash in the mailboxes drawer. There is also a setting to automatically delete messages from the account's Trash mailbox after a chosen period of time.
When messages selected for deletion are deleted from the account's Trash mailbox, the message are deleted from the hard drive at that time.

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