[Users] Can emails be stored on local disk?

Liz Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Sun Sep 27 00:58:07 CEST 2020


On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:46:11 +1000
Peter Richards <peter777 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:38:30 +1000
> Peter Richards <peter777 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:31:08 +1000
> > Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > Gmail does store all your mail regardless. It's in AllMail
> > > Spam they store for 30 days at most, but examine your AllMail and
> > > see what is actually in there.
> > > If you want to permanently delete from Gmail it needs to be
> > > deleted from AllMail, the rest is just hidden from you.    
> 
> This article seems to address any Sent items being stored in GMail,
> but have not as yet found a solution to the 'inbox' issues -
> https://support.google.com/mail/thread/9621485?hl=en

I use gmail to receive all my mail which wants to sell me something.
They can enjoy reading about everything I do and don't want to buy.
Stuff that I remove by claws-mail filtering I "copy to Claws-mail
folder" and "move to Trash". Then it disappears from AllMail after a
while.

Liz


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