Deleting Yahoo mail?

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Deleting Yahoo mail?

Is there a way to delete emails on Yahoo on my iPhone without deleting them in my Yahoo account itself? My concern is that unless I delete emails on my iPhone, the memory will quickly fill up -- but I don't want to delete them from my Yahoo email as a whole (i.e., I want them still to be there when I use Yahoo mail on my computer via the Web interface). Or am I basing this question on a misconception as to whether the emails actually are downloaded onto my iPhone in the first place when I access them using the Mail program on the phone -- could it be that I am viewing them online (as with a browser) but not actually downloading them? In that case, there would be no need to delete them for reasons of iPhone memory-space conservation.

Posted on Sep 20, 2007 11:13 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 20, 2007 12:15 PM in response to pedregosa

on the iPhone
Go to Settings-->Mail

then select your yahoo account
at the bottom of the screen select "Advanced"
last option is "delete from server"

set that to never.

Then when you delete the e-mail on your iphone, they will still be on the yahoo server so you can access them from elsewhere.

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viali17

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Sep 20, 2007 12:52 PM in response to Brett Swanstrom

That option does not apply for yahoo accounts

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pedregosa Author

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Sep 20, 2007 12:59 PM in response to Brett Swanstrom

I already have it set to "never" -- but the messages are still deleted from the Yahoo server when I delete them on the iPhone.

Also, the option on my iPhone doesn't say "delete from server" -- there is just a menu for "deleted messages," and one can set it to "remove" and "never." I think that this feature may be about whether messages that are deleted so that they then go in the trash are later deleted permanently. It doesn't seem to be an option governing what happens to the messages on the server.

By the way, I am using the Y! mail auto set-up feature on the iPhone -- not getting my Yahoo messages via POP.

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pedregosa Author

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Sep 20, 2007 1:01 PM in response to viali17

So do you know whether the Yahoo messages are actually downloaded into the phone or whether I am effectively viewing them online? In other words, do I need to be worried about memory space issues with heavy volumes of email coming in?

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JJESSEL

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Sep 20, 2007 1:39 PM in response to pedregosa

I'm pretty sure that you're viewing the messages online and not downloading them from the server. That is why there is no option to not delete the messages from the server.

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