Unable to move message to Trash

OctoberGuy's suggestion worked perfectly for me. Just select the email and choose Message > Mark as Unread.

As soon as the message is marked as unread, it increases my Inbox's new message count by one, momentarily, then disappears from Inbox (presumably to trash).

I was also helpend by OctoberGuy, thanks!

I had been staring at a couple of old inbox mails for months and had replied twice to a mail by accident once already.

To help others in the discussion:

There are DIFFERENT problems with not being able to delete mails from your iPad / iPhone:

- One is for IMAP mail accounts, fe Google.

This can be solved with the mailbox trash settings in advanced mail account settings as mentioned above.

- The other one is mails that remain in the inbox for Microsoft Exchange mail accounts.

(The trash setting is not even available for this type of account)

The simple solution is to edit the mail list and mark the offending mails as (un)read.

After that, they wil magically disappear, as well they should!

Cheers,

Richard

thanks to all who suggested to mark these messages that won't go in the trash...as UNREAD. It worked, they all went away, finally!!

This solution worked perfectly for me on a Hotmail account. Thank you so much.

I had the same problem and this method solved it. Thanks a lot!

This link helped me. It has to do with the IMAP prefix. http://www.netchimp.co.uk/webdesign/iphone-ipad-macbook-mac/iphone-unable-to-mov e-message-to-trash-imap/

that finally did it

http://www.netchimp.co.uk/webdesign/iphone-ipad-macbook-mac/iphone-unable-to-mov e-message-to-trash-imap/

Even though this problem has been resolved, I found another way to fix the same issue for those of you who come up short.

I tried almost everything on this list except OctoberGuy's way (that was my last resort.) Nothing worked for me. I was started to get concerned.

Deleting the account and then reattaching it straight away did not work for me. However, I did try this:

Go to your mail account and delete the account. Turn the phone off and wait 30 seconds. Turn the phone back on and go back to your mail and reattach your email to the phone.

That did the trick for me! Hope this also helps people.

I Typed in he IMAP prefix INBOX and it partially fixed the problem. Now about half of the emails to to trash instead of none. The other ones still mark as read but won't delete they just go back to inbox. I am thinking of deleting the mailbox but I actually have 6 accounts on my iPad and itis happening on like 3 now. Why won't you fix this apple?

btw both IMAP and exchange.

I know this is a really old post, but I couldn't delete 2 emails on my phone and this fixed it! Thanks!!!

This solution to the problem works like a charm and thanks for the help 🙂😁😎

I just had this issue and since it's been a few years since this was posted, wanted to confirm that OctoberGuy's solution does still work with iPhone 5 and the latest ios update as of my posting.

What caused this for me was that when I deleted a message from the <mailbox> mailbox, my ISP wanted to put it in <mailbox>.deleted before moving it to the Trash, and my <mailbox> mailbox was full. So I increased the capacity of my inbox, and all is well.

Perfect solution…it worked for me like a charm.

This worked for me! Had a strange pop mail account. turned off mail waited about 2 minutes, turned it back on and the emails deleted like normal! THANKS! =)