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Originally Posted by throwerbev

If you go into your preferences for email, pull up your gmail account, and set your default trash folder as (gmail)/allmail you will send your mail to the archive folder (the all mail folder) and not the trash folder. I think if you let it be sent to the trash folder gmail will remove it after 30 days. If you let it be sent to the all mail folder it becomes archived forever (until you run out of space anyway)

Thanks for this!