Gmail: Moving and archiving won't delete from the server
Basically, I'm trying to use Thunderbird to clear some space on my Gmail account. I'm using IMAP. However that just won't work (most of the time). If I archive emails to a local archive or move it to a local folder, a) nothing happens, b) the files are actually moved (and appear in the archive folders)... but the mails remain on the server when checking through Gmail itself. Also, the mails reappear after 10-20 minutes. c) mails are actually moved and they are removed from the server. Mostly it's a or b.
I have tried all deletion options... delete directly (doesn't appear to work), mark as deleted (won't free up space) or move to Trash. Depending on the folder it used to work for a short while, with the mails appearing in the trash folder, ready for deletion. But that stopped working again.
This is all super frustrating and I have no idea if this is a bug or expected behaviour.
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Do the developers interpret the word move as copy or what is happening? In some threads it appears that way. Yes, I CAN delete manually, and that appears to work, however it's a TERRIBLE solution. What, if something goes wrong with moving the maisl and I delete it without having actually created a copy in a local folder? What if the search function hasn't found all mails? etc.
Move should mean move, i.e. the email is in the new (local) location and removed (or moved to trash) in the previous location. That's the definition of the word...
Unfortunately I'm very much in a hurry to clear up space on Gmail and all I get is 10 copies of the same emails on my hard drive, with yet another copy on the server...
Hi Wayne, I was on 128.2.2. However neither 128.2.1 nor 128.2.3 work any better.
I'm really wondering if this is the expected behaviour and I need to first copy the emails and then delete them by hand, because move is supposed to ignore the meaning of the word, or if this is actually a bug.
I found out that for POP3 there is a hidden option to force it to delete the emails from the server when moving to local storage (leading me to think that it's intended behaviour). Sadly, this setting seems to be missing for IMAP.
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