Does Gmail save/store every mail (including PDFs attached to the mails) even after I delete the email itself?

Hello

I've been slowly switching my email provider and wanted to ask you guys whether Gmail saves or stores the content of the email, including the PDFs attached to it, after I delete the email.

So basically, what I'm asking is, would Gmail lose access to the sent and received emails if I delete them, or are all of the emails already stored somewhere? Because I used Gmail for a long time, and in the past, I didn't have an …

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