Comment by pugio
4 years ago
I tried to use Thunderbird for this for a while, but there's a weird bug where it creates copies of emails that have the deleted attachments. You then have to delete those copies to fully delete everything.
Switch to the featured app here and everything worked seamlessly. Definitely worth it, as this way I don't have to pay for Google storage and can clean out a bunch of pure junk from my emails.
> there's a weird bug where it creates copies of emails that have the deleted attachments.
As saying goes, it's not a bug, it a feature. You can disable it by setting following gmail options:
- Auto-Expunge: off
- When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Immediately delete the message forever