> some of my messages end up in Gmail spam folders (very recently received a reply to a message I sent 3 years ago because of that, for instance)
How did this happen if Gmail deletes spam after some weeks?
Re:The “mail is hard” myth
by RandomBacon on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:01PM
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I recently checked my Trash folder in Gmail. I had emails in there that were several years old, right below the text that says Gmail deletes emails in the Trash folder older than 30 days.
Indeed, a quick search suggests that spam is automatically removed every 30 days there. The wording was "Google hid it from me", so either I have wrongly assumed that it's about the spam folder, or it is possible to disable autoremoval.
Edit: or, as the sibling comment suggests, it behaves strangely with respect to removal as well.
Re:The “mail is hard” myth
by scarejunba on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:22PM
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Or user accidentally archived it. “X did Y” is often a user’s way of saying “I accidentally made X do Y” without having to accept blame. It’s the “dog ate my homework” of excuses.
I think it's more of a Gmail/BigMailerCorp issue, and still using a private mail server myself, but I don't think it's fair to say that it's all easy and works flawlessly, even with strangely behaving mail servers on the other end.