I'm amazed this bug is almost 4 years old. This feature was working fine for me up until I "upgraded" to v17.0.2 from 16.0.2. Downgrading back to 16 didn't fix this. This is annoying to say the least because Gmails Trash retention is only 30 days and I prefer to keep my Trash longer.
A workaround I found is: 1) disable "Show In IMAP" under Settings>Labels in the Gmail web interface for the Gmail Trash folder 2) unsubscribe from the Gmail Trash folder in TB Both actions seem to allow permanent setting of an alternate trash folder. This is not ideal however since access to the Trash folder is then lost via IMAP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885525 Title: Deleting a Gmail Message Always Sends Item to [Gmail]/Trash Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Thunderbird 7.0.1, Ubuntu 11.10 Gmail accounts do not obey the setting in Account Settings --> [Account] --> Server Settings --> When I delete a message I changed this to move the message to Gmail's "All Mail" folder, attempting to imitate the Gmail web interface's "Archive" option. However, regardless of setting, the item always moved to Trash. This persisted after restart of the client. The settings save, but have no effect. Caveat: This was tested on two Google Apps for Domains accounts, though I suspect this behavior will happen with gmail.com accounts as well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/885525/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
