<p>Hrm... Linode + Postfix + Dovecot?</p>
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Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 23, 2011 9:17 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> James Sumners wrote:<br>
>> So how long have you been using Gmail? I have 9,335 emails in my<br>>> archive as of this writing. From "What is 'All Mail'?"[1]:<br>>> <br>>> "All Mail is your archive, a storage place for all the mail you've<br>
>> ever sent or received, but have not deleted."<br>>> <br>>> The point of Gmail is that you shouldn't ever have to worry about<br>>> losing an email. Any email you have received, or sent, should be a<br>
>> quick search away. But _no one_ wants all of those message in their<br>>> "inbox" at all times. So emails get archived. This includes "deleting"<br>>> messages via IMAP with some third party client[2]:<br>
>> <br>>> "If you delete a message from your inbox or one of your custom folders<br>>> in your IMAP client, it will still appear in [Gmail]/All Mail...If you<br>>> delete a message from [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash, it will be<br>
>> deleted permanently."<br>>> <br>>> I only ever use the web client, so I can't speak to using something<br>>> like Thunderbird. But I just emptied the 517 emails in my "spam<br>>> folder" and my "All Mail" count was not affected. Why? Probably<br>
>> because "spam" doesn't get counted in the archive.<br>>> <br>>> I don't really see the problem here, though. I have 7.6GB of email<br>>> storage. I am using 521MB of that.<br>> <br>
> Well, when I delete a message, I want it deleted, not sitting around on <br>> a computer somewhere. Certainly you understand that?<br>> <br>>> <br>>> [1] -- <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6581">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6581</a><br>
>> [2] -- <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755</a><br>>> <br>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Myers<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> I've deleted both the contents of the spam folder and trash, yet I still<br>>>> see 2487 messages in the 'all mail' folder of thunderbird. I've logged<br>
>>> into gmail and see the same there. I just now verified from the gmail<br>>>> web interface that the trash is empty and spam is empty, yet I still see<br>>>> the 2000+ messages in 'all mail.'<br>
>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Until later, Geoffrey<br>> <br>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<br>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under<br>
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