Delete button is not send-to-trash - just gone gone gone
The Delete button (I've just begun using Thunderbird for Android) sends email to Delete-land: gone for good. There is no way to reprogram it to send to Trash. One can, alternatively, hide it on the main screen by setting swipes left and right to None. But it is still there in the Read screen....and potentially dangerous. If you try to set a swipe to Trash rather than Delete, there is no Trash option. So you have to set it to Move and choose Trash each time. This reduces the utility of Tbird Android and means you have to be extra-careful when reading emails.
Also, no way to reduce image sizes (by percentage) when attaching large picture files...unless you reduce them in advance in an image processing program.
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Thank you. Yes, I did know about the Confirm Actions and had that enabled (for safety). I was completely unaware of the Assigned To feature....and set deletions to go to Trash...and amazingly it worked. Woohoo! Somehow all of this now makes more sense...I had set up the account and didn't want to touch it lest I'd break it! But in fact there were goodies in Account that needed my attention and modification, which you were kind enough to point out. Phew. I am IMAP....was POP3 before I shifted my Win 11 Thunderbird recently to IMAP and then shifted the Tbird Android that I had just begun to use over to IMAP....deleting the old POP3 (with trepidation) and setting up the IMAP. Somehow, if one has been retrieving mail by one method practically since the Internet was born, shifting to a new method requires a strong constitution! Thank you so much....now all I could wish for would be image re-sizing. Some day!
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Hi relativevalue1
To avoid accidental deletions, the app can be setup to prompt for confirmation before any deletion. To enable this, navigate to settings > general settings: Confirm Actions. Select delete items.
Can you check you have a trash/deleted folder assigned under settings > account > folders. Emails will normally be moved into the trash folder as long the folder is assigned.
Under settings > account > fetching mail, there's a number of settings allowing you to set how deletions should be handled on the server. You can review these and change to fit with your usage.
Q) Are you using an Imap or pop3 connection to the server.
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Thank you. Yes, I did know about the Confirm Actions and had that enabled (for safety). I was completely unaware of the Assigned To feature....and set deletions to go to Trash...and amazingly it worked. Woohoo! Somehow all of this now makes more sense...I had set up the account and didn't want to touch it lest I'd break it! But in fact there were goodies in Account that needed my attention and modification, which you were kind enough to point out. Phew. I am IMAP....was POP3 before I shifted my Win 11 Thunderbird recently to IMAP and then shifted the Tbird Android that I had just begun to use over to IMAP....deleting the old POP3 (with trepidation) and setting up the IMAP. Somehow, if one has been retrieving mail by one method practically since the Internet was born, shifting to a new method requires a strong constitution! Thank you so much....now all I could wish for would be image re-sizing. Some day!
Glad it helped you.
Image resizing has been a feature requested by the community. You can vote for the idea on the Mozilla Connect link below.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-send-pictures-reduced/idi-p/101513
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