[ale] OT: gmail question

[Geoffrey Myers]

David Tomaschik wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> 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..
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
> 
> GMail does not have a concept of "folders", only labels.  It
> represents labels to the IMAP interface as if they were folders.  It
> also presents a virtual folder called [Gmail] with a number of
> subfolders containing automatically-generated views of your mail, one
> of which is all mail, and is aptly named as such.
> 
> If you empty your trash and spam, those messages should no longer
> appear in all mail.

Not the case.  I have emptied the trash and spam, still have over 2000 
messages in 'all mail.'


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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