On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:17 AM, bill hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
.. > . The tip that these Group emails are automatically put in Trash, but they > are not stored in Sent Mail, Starred, Important, Drafts, etc.... as Zack > says, that doesn't seem to make sense, > ... > Anything that is in Trash (or Spam) does not appear in any of your other Labels, Sent Mail, etc. That is how Gmail works. Yes, they might have those Labels attached to them, but Gmail excludes them from ordinary searches. You only see deleted messages when you look in Trash (or when a search includes in:trash or in:anywhere). I "delete" these group messages for the same reason I "delete" most other > group messages. I get about 70-100 email messages a day (not a lot by the > standards of many people, but still quite a few). If I left all of them on > my Gmail Inbox, in a couple of days they'd be buried. > If you don't want them in your Inbox, then take them out of your Inbox: Archive them! You don't need to delete them. There is no reason to fill your Inbox with everything you ever want to keep. That is what the Archive button is for. Archive = Keep this message but get it out of the Inbox. I routinely Archive every message the moment I read it, unless it needs further attention. I also Archive a lot of messages I haven't yet read, but don't want to throw out just yet. Messages which I want to keep for a very long time, months or longer, I > Move to Archived Mail, where I file them under one (or more) of several > subcategories. > Archiving does NOT move a message to some sort of different storage. The only thing it does, is make it not be in the Inbox anymore. It does not affect its appearance in All Mail, Sent Mail, Starred, any of your Labels ... nor your ability to search for it. > I'm positive that I didn't accidentally empty the Trash, as such. All the > other Trash is there. But now I know that I have to be much more careful > about checking Trash on the few occasions when I need to go back to a Group > email I've sent. > You know about the 30-day limit, where deleted messages vaporize. I'm not clear how your sent messages were deleted in the first place. Did you manually delete each one after you sent it? Or do you have a Filter that somehow recognizes when you've sent a message to a certain group of people, and auto-deletes it? In any event, I would think that any message you have sent, is a good thing to keep around and never delete. Unless you are filling up your 15GB. 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 [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/d/optout.
