iphone deleting emails automatically after two days...why?
iPhone OS 3.1.3
iPhone OS 3.1.3
Hi there. I wondered if you could help me. I have an iPhone 6s and for some reason one of my email accounts deletes all emails from the inbox older than 7days. I used to keep all of my inbox on my phone without problems until the people that hold my mailbox (dreamhost) updated their certificates and I had to remove then re-add my email account. Ever since I only get 7 days worth of emails in my inbox. Help! Thanks so much
I also found the same problem. turned off the auto delete after one week. and found the deleted files in the trash.
Same here, been using imap protocol for my mail on iphone 4. Emails download ok to the inbox, moving to sub folders seem ok - they move and are there visible in the folders. Alas, only for a couple of days before the moved mails miraculously diappear, nowhere to be found. Ive searched my whole mail box (every folder individually) for the elusive mails... and nothing.
Deleted my yahoo mail account and been manually using safari to access my inbox for a week no and voila no disappearing emails.
Apple we would like a response to this please there are archived posts from 2007 with multiple users reporting this problem. Please help, at this moment in time (for me certainly) the mail app is just a waste of screenspace on the iphone.
IOS5
Settings>>>Mail, Contracts, Calendars>>>Accounts(Mail)>>>Mail Days to Sync>>>Choose you want😁
This has been furnished as a solution in other forums, but is NO solution as there is no such option as "Mail Days to Sync".
iOS 5.0.1 menu structure as follow
...>>Mail, Contacts, Calendars
|--Accounts (select affected account)
| |--Account (eg. abc@yahoo.com)
| | |--Name>>Txt field
| | |--Address>>Txt Field
| | |--Password>>Txt Field
| | |--Description>>Txt Field
| | |--Outgoing Mail Server>>Txt Field
| | |--Advanced
| | |--Mailbox Behaviours>>Drafts Mailbox/Deleted Mailbox
| | |--Incoming Settings>>Use SSL/Authnetication/IMAP Path Prefix/Server Port
| | |--S/MIME>>On/Off
| |
| |--Mail>>On/Off
| |--Calendars>>On/Off
| |--Notes>>On/Off
| |--Archive Messages>>On/Off
|
|--Mail>>Show / Preview / Minimum Font Size etc....
Nowhere can I find a "Mail Days to Sync" option, Am I missing something obvious?
Not sure if anyone else is noticing this but the disappearing only happens to me when I open mail app and quick view an email before the app finishes updating. It then vanishes while I'm reading the message once the iPhone completes its "push" update of the server emails.
hello had the same problem just fixed it a moment ago what you need to do is dellete the account off the iphone for now and make it again but this time when it ask you like google mail yahoo hotmail all that jazz dont pick any of them pick other set it up then you will have the advanced option again and can change it to never so heres a run down
settings
mail,contacts,calenders
account affected delete it
add account
then down to the bottom hit other
add mail account
enter your details hit done
go to bottom in account just above delete is advanced
onec in ther look for delete from server and select never
and this was all due to the 5.0.1 update changing a few setings hope this helps everyone
I hope you're right. I'm about to try it now. Thanks alot.
Thanks callumfromlivingston, good thought. Have thought something similar before, but been to sceptical to try it though. Wouldn't want to lose any more mails everything since sept has disappeared. Wonder if this date coincide with the 5.0.1 update...
Can you please post if your solution works for definite and stops mails disappearing. If it does, sure I (and no doubt others) will happily follow your lead :-)
iphone deleting emails automatically after two days...why?