[ale] OT: gmail question

[Greg Freemyer]

Geoffrey,

I think you've been archiving a bunch of email, not deleting it.  If
you don't have anything outside of the Inbox you want to keep:

===

Go to the advanced search which is to the right of the normal search
box on the WebUI.

Then on the right hand side in the "doesn't have" box, enter 'label:inbox".

That should show you all of your archived email.  (ie. Everything not
in your inbox).  Look for the word inbox in front of the subjects.  If
you have any emails with that there, then the above didn't work for
some reason.

Once your happy you have everything but the inbox selected, delete it all.

Greg

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.'
>
>>
>> Greg
>>
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