509207 - Thunderbird ignores preference setting to move message to Gmail:All Mail when deleted.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533140

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I have multiple accounts setup in Thunderbird.
For both of my Gmail accounts I have set the preference..
  Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings->
    When I deleted a message: move it to this folder:
      [Gmail]:All Mail

Now delete an email from the inbox and see what happens..
Actual Results:  
However, when I delete emails from my inbox, they are actually moved to my local Trash folder for that account. I tried moving them to other GMail based (IMAP) folders, but that only resulted in them moving to [Gmail]:Trash


Expected Results:  
I want a Thunderbird delete to result in a Gmail archive, but I could not get it working at all.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Anything in Tools -> Error Console ?

in tb3 betas we have a new shiny Archive function :-)

Comment 2

[Brian Kennelly]

First, a comment.  You can get the same effect, more efficiently, by simply choosing the "Remove immediately" delete option.  The messages are already in "[Gmail]/All Mail", so the copy is unnecessary.

Now, to address the bug:
Did you specify the trash folder name as "[Gmail]:All Mail", as described in your report, or did you use the correct form: "[Gmail]/All Mail"?

Comment 3

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I selected "Remove immediately" and it does what I want.

The Mac GUI shows [Gmail] with a triangle to the right of it and a new menu; so neither version is precise. I selected "All Mail" from the drop down list that showed up to the right when I selected the [Gmail] item in the first drop down list.

When I hit delete, the message disappears for All Mail, but appears in:
  Trash > ([e-mail])