Gmail IMAP and Thunderbird - How to delete E-mails in Gmail's "All Mail"?
I use Thunderbird to access my Gmail accounts. Gmail is confirgured for IMAP and I am able to access all of my E-mail accounts ... so that is good.
However, I do have one issue: When I delete an E-mail in Thunderbird, it moves to the TRASH folder and I empty that daily. However, when I go to Gmail, I can see that they are STILL in "All Mail". If I access All Mail in Thunderbird and delete messages, they reappear.
The only way I am able to get rid of them for good is to access them in Gmail. If I don;t, the All MAil folders grow like crazy and messages thgat I deleted are still there .. some were several years old.
Question: Is there a way to set up Thunderbird so that when an E-mail is deleted in Thunderbird, that it takes it out of "All Mail"?
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Best practice is to just unsubscribe from Gmail's "All Mail" pseudo folder. It's not relevant to a standards-based email agent like Thunderbird, and it just tends to confuse the user, as you discovered.
To Unsubscribe, right-click on the Gmail account name in the Folders List and choose "Subscribe" from the pop-up context menu. This will show all the available IMAP folders. Remove the check mark beside "All Mail" and the folder will no longer be visible in Thunderbird.