I have always had that little garbage can and its still there. I have aol, though.

AOL is still around?!

AND..............its free! Not that I ever paid for it anyways.

I will stick with the Exchange method for now. Unless I missed something their is no way to sync your contacts if you use the Gmail specific way to add an email account.

Originally Posted by flurry

If you want the Trash Icon to return as under the "old" software version with 4.2 follow these steps:

1. Go to "Settings"
2. Click on "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" on the left side of the page
3. Click on your Gmail account at the top of page in the middle
4. Simply change "Archive Messages" to "Off"

The trash icon will now return. I don't really understand why one would want the Archive Messages to be turned on so that deleted messages go into the "All Mail" folder. When I delete a message I want it to go into the trash folder which has about a month archive anyhow......

This is what worked for me. Thanks. All that mess came with the upgrade, and was what gmail looked like. It was MAJOR annoying!!! THANK YOU for this info, I now have my trash can (the direct approach) back.
WOO HOO
HOWEVER, the hotmail account doesn't even have that option like the others did in the settings instructions. You click it ha ha, habit, touch it, and it doesn't even GIVE an archive option, it's just for the pop server connections info. And it DOES have advanced settings. But no worries, it has a TRASH can, just like Yahoo did without having to change anything.

Thank you thank you thank you flurry. I now feel I have my MAIL back!