[ale] OT: gmail question

Wed Feb 23 10:49:49 EST 2011

Imagine Google keeping your information forever - who'd a thunk it?

Oh wait - I did - that's why I don't use Gmail and don't allow Google
Analytics or other their other web javascript stuff to run in my
browser.

If YOU can search the email forever and it is on Google's servers guess
who else can search it forever?

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:08 AM
To: Greg Freemyer
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: gmail question

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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>>>
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> 
> 
> 

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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