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I understand that by connecting via imap to my gmail account with thunderbird, whatever i do in thunderbird would be reflected in gmail.

Yet, if i delete emails in thunderbird, those emails are still present in gmail, even after a while. I set my account preferences in thunderbird under the option "leave messages on the server?" to: "until i delete them".

Did i understood imap wrong, or did i set up something wrong? I would really like to be able to clean up my gmail account via a desktop client, such as thunderbird, as it is much more responsive, and i have 4gb of messages to clean up.

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  • There's an option in the Settings of Gmail to change the default "delete" imap behaviour... >>> When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Archive the message (default) Move the message to the Trash Immediately delete the message forever <<<
    – David d C e Freitas
    Commented May 29 at 19:26

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There's a weird interplay between Tbird and Gmail with labels. If any of those messages have additional labels on them, they will persist in Gmail unless you remove those labels.

There's some more info here, check the bottom for details on what functions in Tbird do in Gmail.

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My mistake: in fact i thought i was connecting via imap, but i wasn't. Make sure it says "IMAP server" under "Server settings > Server type".

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There's an options in the Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP page of Gmail to change the default "delete" imap behaviour...

   Gmail -> **Settings**    -> **Forwarding and POP/IMAP**
When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder:
    Archive the message (default)
    Move the message to the Trash
    Immediately delete the message forever
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    Commented May 29 at 20:59

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