Smart Mailbox

Why would you think that deleting your trash would affect any smart mailboxes? I'm confused. Could you elaborate?

Smart mailboxs aren't really mailboxs. They are saved searches of your inbox with your search critera. That's why it disappears from the smart mailbox when deleted from the inbox.

Regards,

Captfred

How can I get my messages back after deleting my trash!

From a backup, or by using Data Recovery software, and there are no guarantees that will work.

NML5000 wrote:

I have several smart mailboxes on my home desktop Mac. I have comcast. When I delete those emails from my regular folder on the desktop and also empty the trash they also delete from my smart box which bugs me. I want to save them but keep the separate from my regular box. Secondly, none of my smart mailboxes show up as folders on my new iphone4. I cannot move mail to anything but trash making it impossible to save unless I leave it in the inbox and that fills daily with 500+ emails! So for some reason the only way I can sAVE emails in my comcast account is to keep them in the inbox. Yahoo account allows me to see folders and move emails, not comcast. Gonna call them but I feel like I'm missing a setting or something here?

Setup your Comcast account as IMAP (like your Yahoo account) instead of POP (as it is now)

Create a rule for those emails that will move them to a separate mailbox that you created when the first arrive\. That way they never get to the Trash and won't be deleted.

Also create a smart mailbox named "Unread" with the following criteria.

That way you'll see all new email no matter where they are located, the inbox, your special mailbox, the Trash, etc.