[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[Ken Moffat]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:38 -0700, 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 


I wonder if these are message that were archived rather than deleted?