I question the integrity of Gmail, and whether emails I delete truly get deleted. I experience this glitch that seems to happen 2 to 3 times a month and just happened again today.
I'll clean up my inbox and delete emails, then immediately go to trash and select delete all/empty trash. Should be good right? However sometimes like today, I'll check back 15 min to an hour later, and all the emails I deleted are right back in my inbox.
They aren't ghost emails either. I can open and read them as normal and the links in them still work, and I have to go through the process of deleting them all over again.
It's more annoying then anything because I get up to 200ish emails a day, so it takes up valuable time having to delete them all over a second time.
What causes this to happen? It has me concerned deleted emails are saved in a database somewhere and a glitch causes them to get restored after deletion from some backup server or something. I've been experiencing this issue several times a month for over a year and have never had this issue with other email services like yahoo or Hotmail.
And before anyone says it, no, I'm not accidentally clicking restore all. When I delete my trash folder it says trash is empty, and they aren't back in my inbox right away, its always around 15 minutes to an hour after I've deleted them.