[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 12:38:12 am Kurt Wall wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> I checked my GMail account via IMAP (using KMail, if you /must/ know)
> tonight. Much to my surprise, the "All Mail" folder had well north of
> 21,000 messages in it, dating back to to sometime in 2005 when I first
> got my GMail account. I'm /quite/ sure that I deleted that email (using
> the GMail interface, of course), so I was quite surprised to see that
> they had kept all that detritus around for 3+ years. Anyone else here
> had a similar experience?
>
> I've never trusted Google, so this isn't helping their cause with me...
>

<mode=full guess>
Perhaps Gmail's interface marks them as deleted and kmail 's IMAP interface 
doesn't understand it. Perhaps using Gmail you can purge the messages marked 
for deletion?
</mode>

Tim

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