Comments on: Setting up Gmail IMAP Support in Thunderbird (1.5 or 2.x)

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:21:24 +0000

Google has fixed deleting email using T-bird with Gmail IMAP. In Gmail go to Settings/Labs/Advanced IMAP Controls and enable.

Thanks to The Geek for the temporary work around. Thanks to Google for listening to their users.

Cheers.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:47:18 +0000

I spent a long time trying to get deleted emails in Thunderbird to move the emails to the trash folder in Gmail properly.

I’m in the UK and Gmail, due to legal reasons, is known as Google Mail. I think this is why I could not get delete to function correctly.

Here is what I had to change the “trash_folder_name” string to in order to achieve this:

[Google Mail]/Bin

By: Oleg

Oleg — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:56:25 +0000

Hello,

Could anybody, please, explain – I set up gmail account as IMAP (not gmail). It works fine, except deleting the emails. The mail will be deleted from Inbox, but there is another folder, called “All mails” (or something similar) – the message, which was deleted from Inbox is still in that folder.
- So we need to delete each email several times, until it will be deleted everywhere? But this is MicroSoft’s approach to coplicate everything as much as possible, GOOGLE follows its big brother. It reminds me Griboyedov’s “WOE FROM WIT” comedy

Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:21:08 +0000

Edit (Conclusion): I have removed all accounts, deleted the .js file and restarted anew. As of the day of the comment, there is no need to modify anything. Just selecting Move to trash in the account preferences will move the message… to the Gmail trash folder.

It did not work the fist time, so I have browsed the internet to find the solution aforementioned [Gmail]/Trash, but as of today, that is no necessary anymore. Sorry about the fuss. Enjoy you IMAP account as I do now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:30:57 +0000

Edit (Last hopefully): Full accounts working now. Config > search string: Trash > deletion of 1 string imap://[username]@imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Trash (probably left over from a previous try), i.e. There were 2 entries for the account sending directly the received mails to the trash.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:10:54 +0000

Edit (Last). Thunderbird with 3 IMAP Gmail accounts. 2 works, 1 forward directly all messages to the trash.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:14:25 +0000

Edit: I am still testing this method and it seems there is a serious bug. When sending a message from a Gmail account with subject trash, message body text trash, to another Gmail account in Thunderbird, the message ends up directly in the trash folder.

I would recommend filling a bug complaint to Gmail since it seems to be Gmail IMAP server related and not Thunderbird.

Good luck

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:46:56 +0000

IMAP feature is very interesting, unfortunately the mob hotmail and Cie are so stingy, there is only Google, and its way of doing is too fancy. Its moto: Hey! with a new Google account who needs to delete a single message – Sure enough, we users need to read/archive AND DELETE

My experience:

mail.server.server[x].trash_folder_name – string: [Gmail]/Trash
Did not work the first time. I did however the second time after re-creating my IMAP accounts from scratch. The trash folder was at the end of my Gmail folders before. After modifying the config. file and changing the account preferences: Mark it as delete >to> Move it to the trash folder; closing and re-opening Thunderbird, the Trash icon was relocated below the Spam folder. Selecting a message for deletion effectively sends it to the Gmail trash folder.
In the web Gmail interface page, no [Gmail]/Trash label is created anymore. The message are just move to the Trash as it should be in its DEFAULT.

mail.server.server[x].trash_folder_name – string: imap://[username]@imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Trash
Did not work for me at the date of this comment.

I am glad if my comment can help other and make you save some unnecessary time browsing the internet to solve a problem that should not be.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:23:03 +0000

Using this a deleting a inbox item, it deletes out of thunderbird fine.

When I got to gmail interface and search for the email I deleted from thunderbird and it still shows up with no label.

Whats wrong with this picture? I thought using this method deleted it permanently?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:50:48 +0000

THANK YOU! I have been scratching my head all day trying to figure out a way to *actually* delete something in T-bird with Gmail IMAP. Very surprised this isn’t in the official Gmail instructions.