ICloud email automatically emptying trash?

I've used Apple email services for some time (I still use my .mac address). I primarily access my email from the Mail.app on two computers (Mac Pro and Macbook Air) and from my iPhone.
I've noticed that my deleted emails have been disappearing from the Trash mailbox. This isn't a huge deal for me since I'm not nutty about archiving and saving every email (like Gmail wants you to do), but I have lost some emails that I wish I still had. Since I haven't been paying that close attention, I do not know how long this has been happening.
I checked the preferences for my iCloud email for the Mail.app on both computers I use-- both are setup to never delete emails from the Trash.
Then I logged into iCloud, thinking maybe there's a setting in there that's delteing the emails. Sure enough, just below the option to "Move deleted messages to: [Trash]" it says, "Messages will be deleted from the trash after 30 days."
How can I turn this off? Is it even possible? Is this now a permanent fixture in iCloud? (If so, it may be time for me to make the dreaded move to Gmail. Not that I'm a nut about saving emails, but I am a nut about user control.)
Thanks.

Hi trident,
Here is the help screen for iCloud:
Change where deleted messages are stored
By default, deleted messages are stored in the Trash for 30 days. If you don’t want your messages to be automatically deleted after 30 days, you can have the Delete command move them to another folder.
Choose Preferences from the Action pop-up menu at the top of the window.
In the General pane, select the “Move deleted messages to” checkbox, choose another folder from the menu, and click Done.
You don't have to do anything special - just create an alternate folder, and select that in the iCloud preferences for Deleted Mail. Once you have assigned a different folder name (TRASH2, for example), then it will automatically go to that folder when you delete it. And then you will retain complete user control of when your deleted emails go away....
Hope this helps,
GB

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