How to test suspect gmail delivery problems?

[Charles Jones]

Josef Lowder wrote:
> I'm about fed up with gmail.  One of the most annoying things is that
> it is (apparently) impossible to create filters that will actually
> delete (rather than just move garbage emails to trash).  This is
> ridiculous.  I'm still getting 100+ garbage spams plus 100+ emails in
> trash every day and I have to go through all these to make sure that
> there is nothing in there that should not be; and almost every day I
> find one or two items in both spam and in trash that should not be
> there.  Valid items in "trash" are my error/responsibility because of
> my aggressive filtering efforts.  This problem could be minimized if
> not entirely resolved if I only had the ability to actually create a
> "delete forever" filter for some of the most offensive garbage.
>   
If your current filters are failing and moving legit emails to trash, 
wouldn't the "delete forever" filter be a bad idea? :-)