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Re:Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted by windexh8er on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:06PM (#20372583)
Actually it can be. There are free archiving solutions for personal use. I run Mailarchiva [0] at home and it's fantastic for archiving mail and completely free for personal use. Encrypted on disk and you don't need to run it all the time if you don't want. Just fire up the VM for a few hours a month to archive the delta. Has been flawless for me so far and the archive searching is very fast.

[0] https://www.mailarchiva.com/

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Re:Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted by godelski on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:21PM (#20372635)
How does it deal with spam filtering? This is something I understood to be a problem, along with security.
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Re:Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted by windexh8er on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:20PM (#20372838)
This is archiving, not a replacement for a mail server. This way you can delete all mail from your provider >30 days, for example, and still keep searchable copies off net. It's a nice middle ground and, yes, Google would still have seen all of your mail - however it wouldn't have access to it long term.
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