diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index a0e357daba..49ea880e18 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -2954,13 +2954,15 @@ You can define contact groups with the Android contacts app, please see [here](h **(153) Why does permanently deleting Gmail message not work?** -You might need to change [the delete setting](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop) on a desktop browser to make it work: +You might need to change [the Gmail IMAP settings](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop) on a desktop browser to make it work: * When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted: Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server. * When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Immediately delete the message forever Note that archived messages can be deleted only by moving them to the trash folder first. +Some background: Gmail seems to have an additional message view for IMAP, which can be different from the main message view. +