Re: Move to Gmail-trash instead of deleting

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kia Niskavaara <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks! I found the setting in Gmail now. By default deleted mail gets
> > moved to archive. So I changed it to "send to trash" and now it seems to be
> > working as needed.
> 
> Even though I changed the setting in gmail, they are still in the All mail
> folder and not in Trash.
> 
> The setting in Gmail say it will be moved to trash: "when a message is
> marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible imap folder".
> 
> Not sure how to "expunge from the last visible imap folder". What does that
> mean?

They mean as far as the IMAP client is concerned, the message has been deleted
& expunged.  Gmail has a "feature" where a single message can appear in
multiple IMAP folders, so they say it has to be deleted & expunged from *all*
folders before they move it to Trash.

So you'll need to ensure there aren't copies of messages going into other
folders if you want Gmail to treat "delete & expunge" as "move to trash".

> And is it possible to achieve this with getmail?

Yes.  Using "delete" and "move_on_delete" together will also do the
equivalent.

Charles
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