Gmail does things its own way, and the Archive concept behaves differently that of that other systems. For those who don’t file their saved mail, Archive gets messages out of sight while still holding on to them. If you’re using iCloud, Exchange,, AOL, Yahoo, or any other non-Google mail provider, the Archive folder is just an ordinary folder that has been designated for “messages I don’t want in my Inbox any more, but I also don’t want to trash.” For those who already make their own mail folders for saving mail, this might not serve much purpose, and you probably wish to ignore it. The answer, well, depends, on whether you’re using Google Mail/Gmail, or every other mail system. We hope you have found this to be helpful.Questions I hear asked often are “What is the Archive folder (or All Mail) folder and what am I supposed to do with it? And why does an Archive button appear on my iPhone instead of Trash?” This is what a right click menu looks like now: Then type archive_enable in the search box at the top:ĭouble click on the word “true”, and it will change to “false”.Īnd just like that, VOILA! The “feature” is now disabled.

Here is the click path for disabling this pernicious feature: Tools > Options > General > Scroll to bottom > Config Editor … > I accept the risk It’s important to note that if you accidentally type ‘a’ while an e-mail is highlighted before this feature is disabled, poof, your e-mail will be archived. Here’s what a right-click menu looks like in Mozilla Thunderbird before the Archive feature is disabled: There is one particularly annoying feature, however, that we disable on our own computers and today we’d like to show you how in case you also wish to change this setting.Īt this point I’d like to publicly thank Alexis Wilke for sharing these steps originally.

Mozilla Thunderbird has a very simple interface, and it gets the job done 99% of the time. Although the vast majority of our clients use Microsoft Outlook as their e-mail client, there is a useful, open-source alternative called Mozilla Thunderbird that some prefer.

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