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Re: IMAP mail problem

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Dirk Fieldhouse wrote, on 30 Apr 2026 02:18:

> Folder subscription can be invoked in various ways, eg:
> * select the account in the LH pane and choose Manage Folder
> Subscriptions from the RH pane, under Advanced Features
> * from the context (right-button) menu of the account, select Subscribe...
> 
> I confirm that in the Server Settings page the selected folder for "When
> I delete a message: Move it to this folder ..." does not persist when
> the page is re-opened, but deleted messages still go to the selected
> folder. Your desired/selected Trash folder should appear in the
> pull-down for the setting among other subscribed folders.
> 
> Finally, if your IMAP server is GMail, the folders shown through IMAP
> don't actually exist in the server, where all your messages are in a
> single store for easy mining and IMAP folders are implemented as message
> labels. Thus it's possible for the same message to be in several
> folders. If the server should fail to clear other labels when adding the
> Trash label to a message, the message might still be shown in the folder
> from which it was supposed to be deleted.

Starting from the end, my IMAP is FastMail (FM); Gmail is just a POP 
account, so I can keep an eye on the Google account I need to use 
Android easily.

Thanks for showing how to access IMAP account subscriptions; as I many 
times do, I unconsciously thought all settings HAD to be in the 
drop-down menu "Settings" (I even resented the RH pane a little, for 
"cluttering up the email window unnecessarily", or something like that).

Unfortunately, the "Manage Folder Subscriptions" just confirmed what I 
had suspected in the 'Synchronization' "keep on this computer' options, 
as I had already mentioned: I already was/am subscribed to all the 
folders I wanted (and unsubscribed from those I don't want) -- and, 
especially, to the "Trash" folder.

So, since the name of this folder, as far as I can see, IS 
"INBOX/Trash", exactly as I had entered it, it seems the "Move it to 
this folder" SHOULD be working -- and it seems strange it would, on a 
restart, be substituted by just "Trash" in the "about:config" 
Preferences. I just tested it, and it happened again, but this time the 
"Server Settings" 'Move to folder' did not disappear, while moving a 
message from Inbox to anywhere else did not place a copy in the INBOX 
Trash folder (but deleting a message did).

I still suspect something is 'damaged' in the profile, but don't have 
the knowledge or disposition to try and track it down, and also don't 
want to try anything which would involve migrating all my decades-old 
emails (from Netscape, Moz Suite and SM), and risk creating even worse 
problems.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it", and in this case it seems to be 
damaged, but not broken, so...

-- 
Best,

s) alexyu

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