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Well, I only have one V folder, V9, so I don't understand what you mean by "which?" It's in /Users/<<account>>/Library/Mail and it seems to hold all of my inboxes in that one location.
I don't use any Google product, so I cannot address how Gmail works. I routinely purchased my mailboxes of spam and various notices/announcements/newsletters, etc, that I no longer need. I keep long term emails with account information in them (as well as storing the account information in my password holder), but try to keep it clean. I find it easy to sort by From: then select by the address the ones I don't want to keep. Then I sort by Subj: to get to emails I have sent to myself to keep track of various things I have automated (backups, for example) and want to know how they worked (or didn't). I get lazy and don't delete them right away, so I periodically purge them. Anyway, I don't ever recall needing to restore an individual email. Maybe I'm just fortunate that way.
I would debate the "somewhat" term. TM backs up Mail. Period. What is different is the restore process, and yes, it is more difficult that it used to be. But there is no reason, IMHO, for anyone to "wind up losing mail" because of how TM works.Yes TM somewhat backs up mail (but not the way it did before) and makes it much more difficult to restore individual folders or mail messages. Most users are not going to understand this and wind up losing mail.
I don't use any Google product, so I cannot address how Gmail works. I routinely purchased my mailboxes of spam and various notices/announcements/newsletters, etc, that I no longer need. I keep long term emails with account information in them (as well as storing the account information in my password holder), but try to keep it clean. I find it easy to sort by From: then select by the address the ones I don't want to keep. Then I sort by Subj: to get to emails I have sent to myself to keep track of various things I have automated (backups, for example) and want to know how they worked (or didn't). I get lazy and don't delete them right away, so I periodically purge them. Anyway, I don't ever recall needing to restore an individual email. Maybe I'm just fortunate that way.