How long google mail keeps emails

Google Mail, also known as Gmail, has a retention policy for emails that are deleted or expired. Here's what you need to know:

Deleted emails:

• When you delete an email in Gmail, it's moved to the "Trash" folder, where it's stored for 30 days.
• During this 30-day period, you can recover the email by going to the Trash folder and clicking "Restore" next to the email.
• After 30 days, the email is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

Expired emails:

• Gmail has a retention policy for emails that are older than 18 months. Emails older than 18 months are automatically deleted from your account.
• This means that if you haven't accessed an email in 18 months, it will be deleted from your account, even if you haven't deleted it.

Other considerations:

• Gmail also has a "Trash" folder retention policy, which means that emails in the Trash folder are deleted after 30 days, regardless of whether you've accessed them or not.
• If you use Gmail's "Snooze" feature, emails will be stored in your account for 30 days before being deleted.
• If you use Gmail's "Undo Send" feature, emails will be stored in your account for 30 days before being deleted.

How to recover deleted emails:

• If you've deleted an email and want to recover it, you can try using Gmail's "Undo Send" feature, which allows you to retract an email within a short period of time (usually 5-30 seconds).
• If you've deleted an email and want to recover it after the 30-day period, you can try using a third-party email recovery service, but this is not guaranteed to work.

It's always a good idea to regularly back up your emails to an external storage device or cloud storage service to ensure that you don't lose important emails.