[ale] OT: gmail question

[Greg Freemyer]

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.

Greg