Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

Q: How to delete a mail from server

selectively?

 

~best regards, Karl

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11), also 10.4 (iMac flat) and MacOS 9…

Posted on Aug 10, 2016 2:48 AM

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  • by timothyfromindependence,

    timothyfromindependence timothyfromindependence Aug 10, 2016 3:02 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)
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    Aug 10, 2016 3:02 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

    Usually I have to log in to the account online, and delete them there and in the archives also, Gmail is the worst on this, even if you make your settings on your mac to take them off the server after downloading your mail to your mac, it still stores them, yahoo mail i like. , then that will allow you to permanently delete them from your home computer.

  • by Karl Pfeiffer (.at),

    Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Aug 10, 2016 3:15 AM in response to timothyfromindependence
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    Aug 10, 2016 3:15 AM in response to timothyfromindependence

    Former versions had a menu ‘activity’ with the ability to. Show the mails an the server, sort the list, and delete one or more mails.

    ON

    ELcapitan i can’t find this actions. Are they there?

  • by AedanHill,

    AedanHill AedanHill Aug 10, 2016 4:23 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)
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    Aug 10, 2016 4:23 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

    Click on the messages or conversations while holding the command key to have a multiple selection, then click the delete button in the mail toolbar or simply hit the delete key. It most probably move your deleted messages to trash mailbox (to change this behavior go to: Mail > Preferences, click accounts, then click mail behavior), from there you can permanently empty the trash mailbox.

     

    Another way to selecting multiple messages is to search messages of specific dates or of people (through mail search field), then delete those messages by selecting them.

     

    Depending on the settings, sometimes, when you delete messages it doesn't go to trash mailbox but simply hide and remain intact on its original location temporarily (to show/hide these messages go to: view> Show deleted messages or view> Hide/Show deleted messages).

     

    For further detail you can check back to Apple's thread:

    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22308?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

  • by Karl Pfeiffer (.at),

    Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Aug 10, 2016 4:34 AM in response to AedanHill
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    Aug 10, 2016 4:34 AM in response to AedanHill

    Fine, AdeanHill. There is just one tragedy: I wrote:

     

    How to delete a mail from server and meant it so.


    is there a way to select some Mails and delete them?


    ~ Karl

  • by AedanHill,

    AedanHill AedanHill Aug 10, 2016 5:31 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)
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    Aug 10, 2016 5:31 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

    Hi Karl,

     

    I humbly apologize if I couldn't answer your query properly. According to this link by Apple:

    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22270?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

     

    It states: "For IMAP accounts (such as iCloud or Gmail), copies of messages are stored on incoming mail servers until they are deleted."

     

    To the extent of my understanding, it seems that when you delete your messages permanently they are deleted from mail servers automatically, we cannot have emails on our mailbox while deleting them from servers, and in the previous link Apple has given a way to delete messages temporarily & permanently in different heads.

  • by Karl Pfeiffer (.at),

    Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Aug 11, 2016 9:57 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)
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    Aug 11, 2016 9:57 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

    Wondering. This is just a few years old, and I can not find it on ‘modern‘ :-(((((( applications.

     

    in the following images my comment is written in red.

     

    1 activity.jpg

     

    Wheel to open a little menu in the left sidebar of mail main window

     

    2 vom server.jpg

    The window opened by the option ‘Account info…’ It allows selecting mails situated on the server and deleting them.

     

    Any questions? The matter  is important on a workflow with several distributed workstations.

     

    ~ Karl

  • by Karl Pfeiffer (.at),

    Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Karl Pfeiffer (.at) Aug 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)
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    Aug 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Karl Pfeiffer (.at)

    Is it possible to launch an older mail application on Capitan?