[ale] OT: gmail question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Stephen Blevins wrote:
> Has anyone checked this out: In Thunderbird, Left Pane
>     1)  Click on the account name for your Gmail account
>     2)  Click on Server Settings
>     3)  At the paragraph (also called Server Settings) there should be an
>           option for how long messages should be left on the server.  What
>           does that show?

Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 on Centos, no such beast.

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