[ale] OT: gmail question

[Geoffrey Myers]

James Sumners wrote:
> So how long have you been using Gmail? I have 9,335 emails in my
> archive as of this writing. From "What is 'All Mail'?"[1]:
> 
> "All Mail is your archive, a storage place for all the mail you've
> ever sent or received, but have not deleted."
> 
> The point of Gmail is that you shouldn't ever have to worry about
> losing an email. Any email you have received, or sent, should be a
> quick search away. But _no one_ wants all of those message in their
> "inbox" at all times. So emails get archived. This includes "deleting"
> messages via IMAP with some third party client[2]:
> 
> "If you delete a message from your inbox or one of your custom folders
> in your IMAP client, it will still appear in [Gmail]/All Mail...If you
> delete a message from [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash, it will be
> deleted permanently."
> 
> I only ever use the web client, so I can't speak to using something
> like Thunderbird. But I just emptied the 517 emails in my "spam
> folder" and my "All Mail" count was not affected. Why? Probably
> because "spam" doesn't get counted in the archive.
> 
> I don't really see the problem here, though. I have 7.6GB of email
> storage. I am using 521MB of that.

Well, when I delete a message, I want it deleted, not sitting around on 
a computer somewhere.  Certainly you understand that?

> 
> [1] -- http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6581
> [2] -- http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> I've deleted both the contents of the spam folder and trash, yet I still
>> see 2487 messages in the 'all mail' folder of thunderbird.  I've logged
>> into gmail and see the same there.  I just now verified from the gmail
>> web interface that the trash is empty and spam is empty, yet I still see
>> the 2000+ messages in 'all mail.'
> 
> 
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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