[ale] OT: gmail question

[Paul Cartwright]

On 02/22/2011 04:41 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> So, can someone tell me the purpose of the 'All Mail' 'folder' in gmail?
>   I delete email and I dump spam, yet there are over 1200+ messages in
> the 'All Mail' folder.  Many are marked as deleted.
>
> Does Google simply keep your email forever???
in thunderbird, with a gmail IMAP folder, I also have all-mail, and get
what looks like duplicate messages for everything. They are filtered
into folders yet stay in all-mail..


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Paul Cartwright