Ask HN: Any one else missing old gmail emails?

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15 years ago

Since the 10,000 contacts is the top story it got me thinking about my GMail inbox and what other strange behavior might be there.

I remember getting my GMail account in 2004, but when I go to the "oldest" message in GMail, it is sometime in mid-2005.

GMail specifically lists 12678 emails in my inbox, but I have more it isn't showing.

If I use the labels I used to use from 2004, I can see emails from 2004, but they don't show up in my inbox.

Does anyone else see this? It seems like several hundred emails (potentially thousands) are just lost.

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