Bill, the vast majority of Gmail users do not have problems with disappearing emails.
I have to wonder what is different about your situation, or with your use of Gmail, that causes them to be emptied from the Trash, apparently without your knowledge. I'm pretty sure there are no Gmail settings that would ever cause it to purge (empty) the Trash automatically. Do you use a smartphone for access? I rarely ever delete messages in Gmail, except for spam, and test messages to myself. There is no need to. At the moment I have several of those sitting in Trash, waiting for them to time-out (30+ days). They never (to my knowledge) mysteriously disappear before the 30 days are up. I think the easiest way to prevent messages from disappearing, would be to not delete them! Then they would never find themselves in the Trash, which is where the problem seems to be (the fact that they don't remain in the Trash for 30+ days). There is no Filter that can stop you from deleting your messages. Andy -- 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 gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
