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• Thunderbird Trash Folder
  Posted on May 12 2012
  by Nicolas Cannasse

  Just for the record, I'm posting this here. It might help other people as well, or myself if I forget exactly how I did it the first time.

  I'm using Thunderbird with IMAP quite often. It works quite nicely. However specifying an alternative Trash folder doesn't always work as expected.

  For instance on your GMail account Thunderbird will correctly detect that your trash is in [Gmail]/Trash, but messages put in that Trash are automatically deleted after 30 days. I prefer in general to keep all my old mails in an Archives folder.

  Thunderbird has a nice option that ask you in which folder you want deleted items to placed, but that's not exactly what it does. Actually this give it another "Default Trash" folder name, as shown in the prefs.js (it is stored in a trash_folder_name key).

  And this other trash folder will conflict with Gmail one, leading in most of the cases your mails being put in the Gmail Trash instead of your custom one.

  One simple fix I found is to Unsubscribe to t...

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