Where is the Trash in Mail?

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Where is the Trash in Mail?

I have searched all over preferences and under main menu drop down menus. I cannot find an option to show a Trash mailbox. And yet, Under Accounts - Mailbox Behavior - Trash, there is a checkbox to “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox.”
I see Junk and Delete. But where is Trash in Mail?
Duh.
Noodlehead

MacPro (wow), Mac OS X (10.4.9), also 10.3.9 on G4desk and Powerbook G4

Posted on Jan 25, 2008 3:43 PM

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Austin Kinsella1

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Jan 26, 2008 4:47 AM in response to Noodle-head

Look at this thread and see if your problem is the same.

AK

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Noodle-head Author

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Jan 27, 2008 6:56 AM in response to Austin Kinsella1

Austin.
Thanks. I read the thread. Though I did not solve the problem I did discover something. I apparently have my .mac mail account set up not as a POP account? I say this because all the folders in my ~Library, Mail folder end in ".imapmbox." If this means it is not a POP account, how can I change it so it is?
To make matters more confusing (to me), in the left side column of Mail, I have, from top to bottom, Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Junk, and then a globe icon with the name of my .Mac mail account (geo23@mac.com. Under that are three folders: Deleted, Junk, Keep.
There is nothing in the deleted folder, even after I delete something!?
I'm pretty confused.
nÔÔdle- -hëad Per-rrr-plexed

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Noodle-head Author

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Jan 27, 2008 7:05 AM in response to Austin Kinsella1

Austin. Wait. I think I found out why and what the problem was. I highlighted the (globe) geo@mac.com icon in the left column. Then went into Prefs-Accounts. Then into Mailbox Behavior. Next to Trash, I ticked on the Move Deleted messages to the Trash mailbox. I also ticked on Store deleted messages on the server. Then elected One Week Old in the drop down menu for Permanently erasing deleted messages. I quit Mail. Then reopened it and viola, a Trash folder now appears.

Lingering question: how can I tell if I have this set up as a POP account?

noodlehead - hapPY

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Jan 27, 2008 10:02 AM in response to Noodle-head

Lingering question: how can I tell if I have this set up as a POP account?

Mail/Preferences/Accounts and look at the account type. As far as I know .Mac is effectively IMAP and I don't think you can change it, but I have no experience of using it.

AK

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j.v.

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Jan 27, 2008 10:54 AM in response to Noodle-head

.mac is not POP. Don't go changing the .imapmbox endings

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Noodle-head Author

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Jan 29, 2008 5:27 AM in response to j.v.

j.v.
Thanks. So it cannot be a POP account? Even if I want it to be?

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Jan 29, 2008 6:52 AM in response to Noodle-head

And to follow-up on Austin's excellent counsel to you, there is no reason to ever use a POP account instead of IMAP unless your server doesn't support IMAP. Really.

- fred

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j.v.

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Jan 29, 2008 10:10 PM in response to Noodle-head

That's not up to you to decide. The account type is defined by the email provider. Some do allow a choice. I believe that the majority do not. If they do, they'll give you a choice in the account configuration and setup directions that they provide to you.

To the best of my knowledge, .mac is NOT one of those that give you a choice.

When you selected .mac in account setup, it is, essentially, imap. I really don't know what any differences are between selecting ".mac" and selecting "imap", and if none, why the distinction between the two during account setup is made. Maybe it was just to make things "easier" for .mac folks; some sort of marketing gizmo.

The only benefit I see to POP accounts is if you are paranoid about storing your mail on a server. However, until it was downloaded, it was stored there anyways. The big benefit that I see with IMAP is that regardless of from what computer you are accessing your account, your mailboxes on the different computers stay synchronized with one another, so the mailboxes on one computer don't get out of whack with those on another computer. It is always the "latest and greatest."

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