[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[James McDonald]

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...
>
> Kurt
>   
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