If you delete a message in Gmail, it should be removed from the server
in about 30 days. I'm not sure if the 30 days starts from the time the
message was received or the time the message was deleted. So for
example, if you just deleted a message from last January, it may still
stick around for 30 days before it's deleted from the Gmail servers.
Like I said, I don't worry about it and just let Gmail clean up after
itself. I did go in and check though, and the oldest email in my inbox
is from May of 2011, but the oldest email in my trash folder is from
August 2017.
On 10/22/2017 12:04 PM, cmohney1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Christopher.
Thank you for your reply and explanation. My friend still has e-mail messages
from January on her phone. So, where do you go to get the messages to delete
in 30 days? Thank you.
Connie
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 22, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
Gmail doesn't actually have folders on the servers. It attaches a label or set
of labels to each message. When you're looking at a folder in Gmail, you're
just looking at the messages on the server that have that label. So for
example, when you delete a message, the trash lavel gets added to the message,
so when you bring up the trash folder, you're seeing all of the messages that
have the trash label attached to it. Any message that has the trash label will
be deleted from the server in 30 days. This is nice if you accidentally deleted
a message and want to get it back.
The all folder just shows you every message on the server, so it'll include
messages with any label on them, such as the trash label. This is handy if
you're looking for a message and you don't know where you filed it.
I can't answer your other questions since I'm OK with just letting Google clean
up my messages after 30 days or so.
On 10/21/2017 10:02 PM, Connie Mohney wrote:
I'm writing these questions for a friend.
She has a gMail account. In her important mail folder and her allmail
folder she has messages going in there that she has deleted. From her in
box folder. How can she stop those messages that she has deleted from going
into those folders. The sent messages that she has sent to other people are
also going into those folders. She would prefer that her sent messages just
go into her sent message folder rather than those other folders. She would
like all mail she has deleted from her in box to be deleted from the server.
She is still in iOS 10 latest version using an iPhone 5 SE and the iPhone
7. She is a voice over user. Thank you for your assistance.
Connie
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