[ale] OT: gmail question

[Scott Castaline]

On 02/22/2011 07:45 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com>  wrote:
>> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>> 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..
>> That's what I see and I want to get rid of.  I've only got 48 messages
>> in the Inbox, that's all I want.
> > From the gui, open your trash folder and click empty trash.
>
> Otherwise I think deleted emails hang for 30 days or so.
>
> Paul I assume the same is true via imap.  Just subscribe to the trash
> folder and delete everything.  I've never tried that.
>
> Greg
>
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Are you guys seeing a folder under /[gmail]/ on your thunderbird list of 
folders? Does it also reflect unread messages which turn out to be 
duplicated in "folders that you created"? That describes the same 
problem that I used to have from what I had found had something to do 
with the way T'bird handled IMAP in an older version (2.x.x?). I had 
gone through the frustrations of deleting all the index files and such, 
only for the problem to return. I finally took my .profile sub-dirs and 
renamed them allowing T-Bird to start from scratch. I noticed that in my 
list of folders in T'Bird's folder pane no longer included an All-Mail 
folder under the /[Gmail]/ folder and problem went away.