As far as the workarounds on comment #47: I ended up preferring #2 because #1 will remove [Gmail]\Trash from other IMAP clients that don't exhibit TBs behavior. In my case, this created a problem with my iPhone and it attempted to created its own Trash folder.
Workaround #1 seems to work for now with the exception that I cannot access the [Gmail]\Trash folder from TB. I'm not sure how this influences Shift-Delete behavior since I don't usually use it. -- 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