Thank you Christopher. Connie
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. 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