[Users] how to effectively delete messages from Google IMAP (problem and solution)

[Paul]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:59:33 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote: 

> The Folder Type was set to "Wastebin" and was greyed out
> and not changeable.  Am I doing something rong here?

No. There must be a trash/wastebin folder in a mailbox. Therefore the only way
to unset it is to make a different folder into a trash folder. You can't just
change it because then there would be none.

with regards

Paul