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How to make Thunderbird always hide IMAP marked-as-deleted emails?

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Hello,


how can I set Thunderbird to always hide emails that have been marked as deleted in an IMAP account?

There is a dropdown "View" which can be set to "Not deleted", which does the job. But this dropdown resets as soon as you select a new folder, which of course makes it impractical to use.

How can I

a) set "Not deleted" as default for all folders

and

b) make Thunderbird instantly hide a message I have just marked as deleted? (Even if the dropdown is already set to "not deleted", a message newly deleted is still just stricken out, but still listed until I select "not deleted" again.)


To make it very clear: Thunderbird's principal behaviour in marking-as-deleted with IMAP is correct and expected. It's just the view filter that doesn't work as required.


Regards

Hello, how can I set Thunderbird to always hide emails that have been marked as deleted in an IMAP account? There is a dropdown "View" which can be set to "Not deleted", which does the job. But this dropdown resets as soon as you select a new folder, which of course makes it impractical to use. How can I a) set "Not deleted" as default for all folders and b) make Thunderbird instantly hide a message I have just marked as deleted? (Even if the dropdown is already set to "not deleted", a message newly deleted is still just stricken out, but still listed until I select "not deleted" again.) To make it very clear: Thunderbird's principal behaviour in marking-as-deleted with IMAP is correct and expected. It's just the view filter that doesn't work as required. Regards

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Matt
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perhaps change the option in account setting to remove it immediately. (expunge) or move it to a folder (like the deleted folder)

150d
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No, absolutely not: This (marking emails as deleted instead of removing them from the storage) is proper IMAP behaviour. I don't want to break that at all, I just need Thunderbird to work with it in a usable way.

Regards