Move emails to "Trash" when using --delete with a Gmail account.

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Move emails to "Trash" when using --delete with a Gmail account.

twyatt opened this issue 14 years ago · comments

Gmail doesn't actually delete emails when deleting from IMAP. Gmail instead simply removes an email's labels on delete. To perform a delete, an email needs to be moved to Trash.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755

P.S. Thanks for this awesome utility!

Ryan Grove · Answer 1 · Wed Feb 10 2010 13:24:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Move deleted Gmail messages to the Trash. Closed by 2782b52

Jakub Tesinsky · Answer 2 · Thu Nov 08 2012 08:03:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I get this on my gmail account:

Net::IMAP::NoResponseError: No folder [Gmail]/Trash (Failure) (will retry)

the problem is that the name of the folder is localised as [Gmail]/Koš .... I do not really know what to do with this, but please reopen this issue.

Jason Milkins · Answer 3 · Sun Jul 21 2013 13:26:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My "Trash" is labelled as "Deleted Messages" ... I'm patching locally. (which didn't work)

Might need to add this as a configurable to work for everyone. Not sure what's going on, because Google documents the Trash via IMAP as [Gmail]/Trash but I get folder not found. (same when I tried Deleted Messages or Bin.)