i'll give you two: 1. i can do local snapshots and go back and get mail that i've deleted etc. yes i actually like to delete rather than archive mail. 2. some

i'll give you two: 1. i can do local snapshots and go back and get mail that i've deleted etc. yes i actually like to delete rather than archive mail. 2. some people have actually had google lose their mail. i am one of those people, i had a gmail account 3 years ago that all the mail disappeared from. why? i don't know. maybe it was broken into and someone deleted it all. maybe google had an issue ( o lord forbid that would ever happen ) and my mail went poof. i contacted google and got nowhere. so ya, maybe i'm paranoid. but i think of it as just being safe at this point.