Recently, I discovered that some emails in one of my Gmail email accounts were missing. Not sure if Gmail/Google had deleted my email messages.
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Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore 20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 15:36, Marc Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu wrote:
Gmail is *advertised* as working that way.
In practice, though, Gmail used to exhibit search/browse bugs (e.g. failing to identify all relevant mails/threads) annoyingly often. This was sometimes true via the official Gmail web interface, and was especially true via the official mobile app, on at least some platforms.
They are also losing/deleting messages. I have had several occassions where I send a message and my delivering server registered the Sent status of the gmail server and it just disappeared.
In any case, for Dovecot, Joseph & Paul's advice to divide mail into folders where possible seems sensible - especially for access over IMAP.
I also made some cronjobs, sieve scripts that archive/move message the most used folders/mailboxes to archive/2021, archive/2020 etc.