[ale] OT: gmail question

[Michael Trausch]

Hrm... Linode + Postfix + Dovecot?

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On Feb 23, 2011 9:17 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:
> 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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