How to get rid of Thunderbird error "[NONEXISTENT] Unknown Mailbox: Trash"

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Published on 2011-03-06T14:53:12Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 23:10 UTC
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Every time I start Thunderbird, I get this error:

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The current operation on 'Trash' did not succeed. The mail server for account [email protected] responded: [NONEXISTENT] Unknown Mailbox: Trash (now in authenticated state) (Failure).

I've figured out that it goes away if I create folders in my Gmail accounts called "[Imap]/Trash" and "[Imap]/Sent", but why are these necessary? Even if I tell Thunderbird to unsubscribe from them, it still notices when I remove the labels and starts popping up this error again.

One account also complains if I remove the "Sent Items" label.

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