Has anyone checked this out: In Thunderbird, Left Pane<br> 1) Click on the account name for your Gmail account<br> 2) Click on Server Settings<br> 3) At the paragraph (also called Server Settings) there should be an<br>
option for how long messages should be left on the server. What<br> does that show?<br><br>Stephen R. Blevins<br><a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 02/23/2011 11:06 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:<br>
> Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
>> Imagine Google keeping your information forever - who'd a thunk it?<br>
>><br>
>> Oh wait - I did - that's why I don't use Gmail and don't allow Google<br>
>> Analytics or other their other web javascript stuff to run in my<br>
>> browser.<br>
>><br>
>> If YOU can search the email forever and it is on Google's servers guess<br>
>> who else can search it forever?<br>
> I'm fully aware of googles tactics. I use the gmail for innocuous<br>
> purposes, I just don't want it hanging out there forever. It's my throw<br>
> away account.<br>
><br>
> There should be a way to delete messages.<br>
><br>
</div>Maybe I'm not really understanding what you are seeing, but when I look<br>
in my all mail "folder on webUI for GMAIL non of my previously deleted<br>
messages show up. I have my Thunderbird client set up to empty<br>
/[Gmail]//Trash upon exit of Thunderbird. I also do not have access to<br>
/[Gmail]//All Mail on my client either, I can only access All Mail from<br>
the webUI. If you want I can send you offlist all of my IMAP settings.<br>
As I had mentioned earlier, I was seeing similar things in Thunderbird<br>
until I just blew off my old profile sub-dirs and created a new account<br>
from scratch. Apparently somewhere during 3.x.x updates the local<br>
tracking of All-Mail stopped, but behavior drastically changed in<br>
regards to /[Gmail]//All Mail if you kept your original profile through<br>
all the updates. My issues was that the folder in question would show<br>
that it had unread messages and hitting the "button" for next unread<br>
message would cause the client to scan through that folder as well as<br>
all the sorted folders thus reading duplicate messages.<br>
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