[ale] OT: gmail question

[Stephen Blevins]

Has anyone checked this out: In Thunderbird, Left Pane
    1)  Click on the account name for your Gmail account
    2)  Click on Server Settings
    3)  At the paragraph (also called Server Settings) there should be an
          option for how long messages should be left on the server.  What
          does that show?

Stephen R. Blevins
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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