Do you get to keep your Gmail inbox messages forever, or do the ones marked READ get deleted after awhile?

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Do you get to keep your Gmail inbox messages forever, or do the ones marked READ get deleted after awhile?
no, google never deletes your emails, it archives them and Google even encourage you not to delete it. so they can use that data to find out about human psycology and tendencies so they can make better marketing tools. so i wud rather delete my emails then to have them archived. use outlook or thunerbird and download al ur emails from server and then delete them, so google cant have them. but if you dont mind that, then its a different ting altogether, but ya google never deletes it unless u ask for it!
Reply:You keep them, Until you delete them.


If you ever fill your box, Then you would have to lose the ones you dont want, To allow new ones in.
Reply:they stay there forever, even if the are read


and if you delete them, then they are just in your trash can.


Google pretty much wants you to never accidentally delete a message
Reply:They stay there unless their deleted
Reply:only the ones i delete get deleted.


otherwise they stay in my inbox forever.