<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:27 AM, James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Kurt Wall wrote:<br>
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Hi, list,<br>
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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?<br>
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I've never trusted Google, so this isn't helping their cause with me...<br>
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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...<br>
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Seems to be inconsistent because some emails you have to delete several times to get them to finally disappear from the All Mails folder.<br>
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So I wouldn't be suprised if you are getting what you are describing...<br>
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>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.</blockquote>
<div> </div></div><b>Deleting Messages</b><br><div class="i article_content">
<p>Gmail lets you delete either an entire <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=5900">conversation</a> or one message from a conversation. In either case, deleting will move the message to <strong>Trash</strong>,
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 <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6576">archiving</a>.</p>
<p>To delete an entire conversation:</p>
<ol><li>Select or open the message.</li><li>Click the <strong>Delete</strong> button to move the message to <strong>Trash</strong>.</li></ol>
<p>To delete just one message in a conversation:</p>
<ol><li>Open the conversation that contains the message and find the message in question.</li><li>Click the down arrow next to <strong>Reply</strong>, at the top right of the message pane.</li><li>Click <strong>Delete this message</strong>.</li>
</ol>
<p>The individual message will be sent to <strong>Trash</strong>, and the rest of the conversation stays in your inbox.</p>
<p>Once a message in <strong>Trash</strong>, you can permanently delete it yourself:</p>
<ol><li>Click <strong>Trash</strong> along the left side of any Gmail page.
</li><li>Check the box next to the message you'd like to permanently delete.
</li><li>Click <strong>Delete Forever</strong>.
</li></ol>
<p>If you delete a message and then immediately decide you'd like to keep it, click <strong>Undo</strong> in the yellow bar along the top of the page. Your message will be removed from <strong>Trash</strong> and returned to its original location.</p>
<p>If you later decide that you need mail you've deleted, make sure to move it out of <strong>Trash</strong> before 30 days have passed. This way, the message won't be permanently deleted.</p>
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