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Email keeps coming back

About once a week I end up with anywhere between 100 and 200 emails that had previously been deleted. How can I fix this?

iPhone 6, iOS 12

Posted on Nov 27, 2020 4:00 AM

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Posted on Nov 27, 2020 12:36 PM

So more simply

Go to Settings, Mail, Accounts and delete the Comcast account


Then sign in online to your Comcast email account with a browser in a laptop and delete the emails there.

Empty the Deleted folder too.


Then return to iPhone Settings, Mail, Accounts and add back the Comcast account.

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Nov 27, 2020 12:36 PM in response to Penwheel

So more simply

Go to Settings, Mail, Accounts and delete the Comcast account


Then sign in online to your Comcast email account with a browser in a laptop and delete the emails there.

Empty the Deleted folder too.


Then return to iPhone Settings, Mail, Accounts and add back the Comcast account.

Nov 27, 2020 4:34 AM in response to Penwheel

Find a computer.

If we are talking non-Apple email providers go to Settings, Mail, Accounts and delete the account

If it is iCloud mail go to Settings, Mail, Accounts and un-flag the Mail component in iCloud

Then delete them in the web version by signing-in online with a browser in a laptop. Empty the Deleted folder too.

Then return to iPhone Settings, Mail, Accounts and add back the account, or flag on the iCloud for Mail.


Email keeps coming back

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