Significant_Two_4926 OP t1_j24cezv wrote on December 29, 2022 at 3:56 PM

Reply to comment by Skatingraccoon in ELI5: What does deleting emails do? by Significant_Two_4926

Does G-mail fully delete it?

ryschwith t1_j24i9ik wrote on December 29, 2022 at 4:34 PM

My suspicion is that the user wouldn’t have any way to recover it but Google could if they had some reason to (like, say, a nice letter from the FBI). So it depends a lot on what exactly you’re trying to avoid.

Skatingraccoon t1_j24d1eg wrote on December 29, 2022 at 4:00 PM

According to this (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7401?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop), GMail deletes emails from your account that have been in your Trash folder for 30 days, though you can manually empty that Trash folder earlier than that, too.

[deleted] t1_j24lklc wrote on December 29, 2022 at 4:56 PM

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ixamnis t1_j24cyny wrote on December 29, 2022 at 3:59 PM

Gmail moves it to the "Trash folder." Depending on your settings, those emails will completely be gone after 30 days. You can manually go in and get rid of them completely at any time. Or, you can recover them by going to the "Trash" folder and moving them to your "Inbox."