Gmail Adds 30 Day Mass Delete For Spam Bin
from the moving-forward dept
TDavid writes "A couple weeks back I wrote about how Gmail was missing a feature to mass delete emails in the "spam" bin and that I'd confirmed with the Gmail team that this feature had not yet been available. Since this is a beta product, they are looking for feedback and I was hoping to get folks to contact them and request this feature. Good news! This campaign seemed to help. Over the weekend I noticed a new message in the Gmail spam bin that indicates: "Warning: Spam messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted." This would be great except that the automatic deletion does not (yet) seem to be fully enabled. Currently the automatic deletion is moving slower than the spam actually comes in." As I mentioned in the addition to the original article, it seemed likely that they would add a time-based delete feature for spam -- and I'm sure it will start working better at some point. Of course, it would be nice of them to let users choose whether or not to enable this. I've used the Gmail search feature to find older messages that were designated as spam, but turned out not to be. Also, I should mention that since the complaint last month that the Gmail spam filter wasn't particularly good, it seems to have improved a great deal. It's still not great, but it's certainly getting closer to other spam solutions out there.
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Anyway, the delete after 30 days thing has been in there for months, maybe the notice is new tho. The same thing is true for the trash. Anything sitting in either the trash or the spam goes away after 30 days.
As for legitimate stuff in the spam folder, if you haven't looked through it in the last 30 days, chances are you never are, and so the mail is effectively lost anyway. If gmail did let you mass delete, you would delete that mail and then it would definately be gone for good. Keep the issue of spam identification seperate from the ease of deleting large ammounts of emails.
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And I'm pretty sure that Gmail did *not* delete old messages in the spam box. That was what caused the original poster's problem.
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spam messages
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