How to prevent thunderbird gmail/IMAP from marking deleted/archived emails as read

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Published on 2012-11-28T10:35:20Z Indexed on 2012/11/28 11:17 UTC
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I have thunderbird setup to use gmail IMAP. I followed the various guides that recommend setting Edit->Account Settings->Server Settings->When I delete a message->Remove it immediately. Unfortunately this didn't have quite the effect I wanted and after more digging I discovered here that:

[Thunderbird]              [Gmail]
Mark Deleted           =   Archive
Copy to [Gmail]/Trash  =   Delete Permanently
Remove it immediately  =   Archive

Unfortunately whenever I deleted (archived) a message it was also marked as read whether it had been or not. I didn't want this because I like to keep my inbox clean and archive anything that doesn't actually matter, such as funny emails, etc. and then go back and look through the archive later when I have time.

What settings do I need to prevent messages from being marked read when I delete them?


I'm using Thunderbird 17.0 on Ubuntu 12.04

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