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A better Gmail IMAP to Mail.app sync
Authored by: googoo on Fri, Apr 18 2008 at 6:55AM PDT

I think you are right. In order to make these settings work like a normal IMAP server (which seems to be what the hint author intended), you must set Mail.app's trash folder to [Gmail]/Trash. If an IMAP client (i.e., Mail.app) deletes something in the [Gmail]/Trash folder, it gets deleted from the server. If Mail.app deletes a message from any other folder (except [Gmail]/Spam), the "deleted" message would still be in [Gmail]/All Mail.

-Mark