I am ready to accept the reasoning behind treating Gmail as a special case, and disallowing the use of user-specified folder as the trash folder.
But I think that lying to the user is unacceptable. If user's selection of the trash folder is going to be ignored, the user must be told so. Either by not allowing him/her to select that option, or at least by showing them an error message like "this option does not work for Gmail". Currently (52.1.1, eight years since the bug was reported) Thunderbird lets the user select the trash folder, but silently continues to use a different folder. -- 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: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Incomplete 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
