You're peeking inside the abstraction. And on my mac, my gmail is downloaded into my Apple Mail from the gmail server. I can process it there. Similarly, it'

You're peeking inside the abstraction. And on my mac, my gmail is downloaded into my Apple Mail from the gmail server. I can process it there. Similarly, it's written in Mail and set to Google's server. And there's like 9 people not using Google products for home emails :-).