Gmail is quite something

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> Hi Carl,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Carl Friis-Hansen
>> I understand you are using IMAP. Using this, the same thing happens on
>> "Gmail" as in "Thunderbird" because it *is* the same mail.
> I'm afraid this is not true.
> 
> If you delete it from the folder, it gets "archived" since deletion
> simply removes all labels from a mail (inc. Inbox). To really delete,
> the mail needs to be moved into GMail/Trash folder.
> 
> Detailed info here:
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755

Could a workaround be something like moving old mail to another folder 
and then later trash all the mail in that folder using Gmail's web client?
I have not checked, but I assume you can build custom filters in 
Thunderbird to move the over 60 days old mail, right?

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