[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[Dog Walker]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:27 AM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>wrote:

> 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.


*Deleting Messages*

Gmail lets you delete either an entire
conversation<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=5900>or
one message from a conversation. In either case, deleting will move
the
message to *Trash*, where you can permanently delete it or just wait 30 days
when Gmail will permanently delete it for you. If you want to keep a
conversation but remove it from your inbox, try
archiving<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6576>
.

To delete an entire conversation:

   1. Select or open the message.
   2. Click the *Delete* button to move the message to *Trash*.

To delete just one message in a conversation:

   1. Open the conversation that contains the message and find the message
   in question.
   2. Click the down arrow next to *Reply*, at the top right of the message
   pane.
   3. Click *Delete this message*.

The individual message will be sent to *Trash*, and the rest of the
conversation stays in your inbox.

Once a message in *Trash*, you can permanently delete it yourself:

   1. Click *Trash* along the left side of any Gmail page.
   2. Check the box next to the message you'd like to permanently delete.
   3. Click *Delete Forever*.

If you delete a message and then immediately decide you'd like to keep it,
click *Undo* in the yellow bar along the top of the page. Your message will
be removed from *Trash* and returned to its original location.

If you later decide that you need mail you've deleted, make sure to move it
out of *Trash* before 30 days have passed. This way, the message won't be
permanently deleted.
  <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=7401#>


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