[ale] OT: gmail question

[Scott Castaline]

On 02/23/2011 11:06 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> 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?
> I'm fully aware of googles tactics.  I use the gmail for innocuous
> purposes, I just don't want it hanging out there forever.  It's my throw
> away account.
>
> There should be a way to delete messages.
>
Maybe I'm not really understanding what you are seeing, but when I look 
in my all mail "folder on webUI for GMAIL non of my previously deleted 
messages show up. I have my Thunderbird client set up to empty 
/[Gmail]//Trash upon exit of Thunderbird. I also do not have access to 
/[Gmail]//All Mail on my client either, I can only access All Mail from 
the webUI. If you want I can send you offlist all of my IMAP settings. 
As I had mentioned earlier, I was seeing similar things in Thunderbird 
until I just blew off my old profile sub-dirs and created a new account 
from scratch. Apparently somewhere during 3.x.x updates the local 
tracking of All-Mail stopped, but behavior drastically changed in 
regards to /[Gmail]//All Mail if you kept your original profile through 
all the updates.  My issues was that the folder in question would show 
that it had unread messages and hitting the "button" for next unread 
message would cause the client to scan through that folder as well as 
all the sorted folders thus reading duplicate messages.