The help file's statement is "about 30 days" I have seen this go a little longer from time to time, and rarely it goes even further. How much longer (after you've deleted them) have you been seeing yours "hang about"? Are you using an offline mail reader (like Thunderbird)? It might not sync up the permanently deleted status, thereby appearing for the messages to still be there.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Steven Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > I am told that messages in Bin are to be deleted 30 days after having been > consigned to that folder. Mine are not. What goes? > > On Tuesday, 28 June 2005 06:20:58 UTC-7, Steven McDougall wrote: >> >> Well, remember that Gmail is still mostly beta...it could change to your >> needs =P >> >> On 6/28/05, dizdaz89 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> All of those a very good points that I'm sure google will or at least >>> should address. It almost seems like they count on *everyone* not needing >>> to delete emails or not wanting too. >>> >>> >>> On 6/27/05, Don <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The lack of a DELETE ALL button is a royal PITA. So is the lack of a >>>> setting to turn off saving sent mail. So is the lack of a setting to >>>> delete >>>> downloaded mail instead of sending it to the trash. >>>> >>>> Those three items are the top three reasons I am about to give up on >>>> Gmail >>>> and go to a Yahoo paid account. For less than 2 bucks a month, no more >>>> PITA. >>>> >>>> Don >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Rafael Garay" <[email protected] > >>>> To: < [email protected]> >>>> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:13 PM >>>> Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: Messages delete from trash automatically >>>> after 30 >>>> days? Or NOT. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Trash is trash. I want it to delete. I guess I'll have to manually >>>> delete all 12,000 of them and keep an eye on the Trash after that to >>>> make sure it doesn't get out of control again and take so much time to >>>> empty. If I delete 1000 per day I should be done in a couple weeks :) >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
