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Gmail question

Sep 27, 2005 11:10PM PDT

Does Gmail have an option that will automatically delete emails after a set number of days?(45)

I was recently on the webserver and I have alot of emails in the trash. I don't really need them after 45 days. I was wondering (that's dangerous too)if there was some setting that I could tell it to automatically delete my trash messages after 45 days.

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Not aware of a setting...
Sep 27, 2005 11:29PM PDT

From all I see and read it seems GMail encourages mail be left on the server... for what reason I am unclear.

If you learn a way I sure would like to know. I just highlight and manually delete all mine from time to time.

Regards,

Glenn

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Sorry, PudgyOne... I slightly misread
Sep 27, 2005 11:37PM PDT

your comment. You were asking about auto deleting the "Trash" after 45 days... I see at the top of the Trash page that it is automatically deleted after 30 days but see no provision for changing that to 45 days.

HTH

Glenn

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Automatically deleted after 30 days
Sep 28, 2005 6:34PM PDT

Automatically deleted after 30 days does not work.

You are right I see this message

(messages that have been in Trash more than 30 days will be automatically deleted)

But I just looked and my oldest email is dated

April 12th

and today is Thursday September 29th.

Is that more than 30 days?

Who do you report this to?

Houston, I think there's a problem!

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Yep, sure is a problem...
Sep 28, 2005 11:59PM PDT

No solution here but I suppose you can manually delete these. I have none in trash so cannot test it. I have manually deleted all my e-mails except a few recent ones.

Good luck!

Glenn