Moving Mail's Trash into Archives

[TaoKao]

I use iCloud, and Apple’s various stock email clients. And unfortunately I find that either on iOS or on Mac “they” change my Preferences to do things like delete Trash after 1 week. I found my Phone did that this morning when I was looking for an email address. Archiving is turned on but it only Archives manually. The answer I think should be to let the human do the purge. I have looked to write a rule on either the Mac or in iCloud to move everything in an email folder (out of Trash). Is there a trick I am missing?

[tf2]

On iOS, go to the account in the Settings app > Email, tap Advanced at the bottom, and then depending on the kind of account you’ll have some useful options:

For example, an imap account has these two options:

A Gmail account may not have the second one.