[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...
>
>   
I just logged in via IMAP using Tbird and I can delete items from my All 
Mail folder which then moves to Trash then I empty trash and then I get 
the same emails appearing back in All Mail...

Seems to be inconsistent because some emails you have to delete several 
times to get them to finally disappear from the All Mails folder.

So I wouldn't be suprised if you are getting what you are describing...

 From memory wasn't the whole thing behind gmail about views and those 
views aren't really folders but we think of them as such... The other 
from memory thing was that they don't really delete things because they 
scan it and use it for targetted advertising.