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My gmail is forwarded to my Mail on my Mac. I now have over 14000 emails in the gmail "mailbox" because I can not delete them. When I do, they just come back. Frustrated ...

This is a Gmail issue.
It is not possible to delete something from Gmail over IMAP: Gmail doesn't let you do this. When you "delete" something from Mail, it "deletes" it from the Mac. However, if you show the "All Mail" folder, you will see ALL your email in Gmail.
There are 2 solutions to this:
1) If you go to your Gmail web account, you can select which Gmail labels are shown over IMAP. You should disable "All Mail" so you won't see the folder in Mail.
2) From the Gmail web interface, you can actually permanently delete emails. Go ahead and delete them there and they will be gone forever from Gmail, and from Mail.
This is not something Apple can address. It's how Gmail implements IMAP, which is totally nonstandard.

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