I have a Mac Book Air, Iphone and an Ipad. I would like to delete an email on one device and have it delete on all. I thought that I could do that with my icloud account? I have tried several times to do this and pretty well ready to give up. How do I achieve this function.?
MacBook Air
how can I delete emails from 3 devices one time
Your ability to do this is determined by the type of email account you have. Only IMAP and exchange email accounts will do this; POP/POP3 accounts will not. If you have a POP/POP3 account you'll have to switch to an IMAP account such as GMail or iCloud email in order to have this functionality.
So then to accomplish this I should forward my email from my hotmail "pop" account to gmail then use that as my email account all my seperate accounts? I was thinking I could forward my gmail account to icloud but i guess that doesnt work. When I send an email from my devices just show that it came from my hotmail account. I guess it obvious that I don't want to give up on my hotmail account. Reason why is that I have been using that email for almost 20 years and its the account that all my contacts us to email me.
I know it can be tough to change email accounts but I had to do the same a number of years ago. My old POP email is forwaded to my iCloud account, although I gave everyone my new address and it wasn't long before no one sent email to my old account. The POP system is quite old and outdated now, and was desiged when people only checked their email from a single device. Most people have transitioned to IMAP accounts at this point.
You could forward your email to either your GMail account or your iCloud account. They are both IMAP accounts and will provide the behaviour you're looking for. However, when you reply to a forwarded email it will be show that it was sent from GMail or iCloud, not from Hotmail.
If you want to move your contacts, you can download the app My Contacts Backup and use it to back up your contacts as a vCard attachment to an email that you send to yourself. This attachment can then be used to import them to either GMail or iCloud. If you want to import them to iCloud I can tell you how to do that.
If you are using aol this is how you set up for deletion on all devices...go to settings, mail contacts calendars, then choose the email you wish to change, tap account and then advanced...scroll down to imap path prefix and type in imap.aol.com and i assume you would treat other providers the same with their imap path prefix.. It worked for me. Hope this helps
Difference between IMAP and POP
IMAP | POP |
| These days, IMAP is the more common option. It keeps your email (and folders) on the remote email server, which means you have access from multiple locations – including mobile. | Requires you to download your Inbox (no folders) to your computer before you can read it—and, depending on settings, your email is deleted from the server as soon as it’s downloaded. |
IMAP Setup Information
For a secure connection, check the SSL option for IMAP and TLS for SMTP in your mail program.
I still have a similar problem and I use gmail.
I delete an email on my iMac but it still shows up on my iPad.
How can I get the iPad to mirror what's on the iMac and vice versa?
Im having the same problem. 😟
Are your e-mail accounts IMAP accounts?
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
i want to continue to receive emails on my gmail account on desktop but
also want them to be deleted on my ipad when i delete them from desktop
so how can i do this?
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
Are the Gmail accounts set up as IMAP?
Thanks very helpful
How do I delete emails on all my devices
