[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[Andrew Gould]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> 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...
>
> Kurt
>

My deleted GMail messages do not appear in the "All Mail" folder.  Even the
messages that are still in the "Trash" folder do not appear in "All Mail".
Have you checked your "All Mail" folder using the internet interface rather
than KMail?

Regardless, the fact that I do not see messages that I've deleted may have
no bearing on whether GMail has actually deleted them.

Andrew
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