[ale] OT: gmail question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> I just did a double check on what I wrote and it did NOT work.
> 
> I don't have much in my Inbox, so I must have missed that the there
> were some Inbox messages still displayed.
> 
> So, I don't know how to show "everything, but the Inbox".
> 
> If you can figure out how to do that, you can delete them.

Thanks.  I guess I just don't like gmails model.  Once I delete a 
message and empty the trash, the message should no longer be there at 
all.  Same applies for spam.

> 
> Good Luck
> Greg
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson