Some of my emails go to Archive folder automatically without chance of being read. Archive appears to be a local (on-my-mac) folder which removes the emails from IMAP. We are 3 people using one IMAP account (support email), moving emails to a local archive folder on my Mac prevents other two co-workers to have access to all emails received. How do I dissable Archive in Mail completely? Thanks.
OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mail app with 10.9.1 update
I was having this same issue, with random new unread emails being automatically moved out of my inbox to an Archive folder in the Mail program (interestingly, they still showed up in my inbox on my iPhone).
I found a solution on another thread: Go to Gmail Settings > Labels and uncheck the "Show in IMAP" checkbox next to "All Mail."
Once I did this all the messages reappeared in my inbox. Hope this helps!
That shouldn't happen as long as you have the Inbox label enabled. These are the Gmail label settings that work for me. All Mail is the crucial label to uncheck to fix the archive issue in the Mail app.
edmineck wrote:
wow you are so helpful
Clearly you know little about the subject.
It's a Gmail function, not Mac Mail, if you stop using Gmail it stops.
Perhaps you should research a little before opening your mouth, or fingers.
Uh..I'm not using GMAIL and I have accounts that are archiving...sooooo
Just followed these steps, and it seems that it has indeed helped. Thanks!
One problem that I found right away, though: when I chose to delete a Gmail message in Mail, I got an error that indicated "Trash" folder didn't exist on the server. . . . Hmmm . . . Well, that makes sense in light of this thread, right? . . .
So I went to the Preferences > Accounts > selected Gmail > Mailbox Behaviors and unchecked the box by "Store deleted messages on the server." . . .
Thereafter, I was able to delete Gmail messages.
So far, so good!
Many thanks.
I do not have a rule created to move messages to Archive folder. I also did not create the Archive folder itself, though it is full of messages (new and old). I've seen other people asking about how to turn off Archive feature in Mail on other forums as well.
Same problem here. Mail is archiving randomly: New, Old, Read, Unread, Spam, Friendly...
Al rules deleted.
Junk turned off: but still markes my mail as Junk.
A complete mess.
Hope someone finds a solution.
Its the way Gmail works. Gmail archives all your mail, log into the web mail app and you will see you have an inbox and an all mail folder. Log into gmail using your web browser then go to the pop/imap settings and change the archive setting.
There is no "auto-archive" feature in Mail. Stuff is only moved to the archive folder if you move it, or click the "archive" button in the toolbar.
Happening to me as well on my mac.com (aka iCloud) address in 10.10.4. No rules set to archive. No other users of the mail account.
-cls
"There is no "auto-archive" feature in Mail. Stuff is only moved to the archive folder if you move it, or click the "archive" button in the toolbar."
Or create a rule or use a program to to the archive for you.
Same problem here too. Maybe it happened with last update, did not seem to happen before. Also, all my online mail boxes have this going on...
message -> move to -> archive -> online name (all mail)
with these exceptions. My msn and yahoo accounts do not show at all and my 'on my mac' shows twice, once at the top and once at the bottom. I think all 3 of these are pop3 accounts, if that makes a difference....
Another weird thing is my msn account does not not show in the dropdown of 'move to' or 'copy to'
I am having the same problem.
I have several accounts in (Apple) Mail 7.1 in Maverick -
None of the pop server or exchange accounts have an "Archive" folder but
both of my imap server accounts (gmail) DO!
All of my gmail is archived ...
It got my attention because it's consuming a significant amount of disk space.
where's the control for these 'archives' ??
Raymond
I think "archive" setting in gmail is different from the new "archive" mail folder in apple Mail 7 in Maverick...
The Mail 7 archive that appeared after Maverick install includes all mail from gmail. It seems that it may be collecting everythiing that is on the gmail server...
We have three people who access this mail account and I don't want to mess up the imap functionality
It got my attention because I had unexplained consumption of disk space... Omnisweep has found that gmail is consuming 150 Gig on my 500 Gig drive.
edmineck wrote:
Raymond
I think "archive" setting in gmail is different from the new "archive" mail folder in apple Mail 7 in Maverick...
The Mail 7 archive that appeared after Maverick install includes all mail from gmail. It seems that it may be collecting everythiing that is on the gmail server...
Totally incorrect, Gmail keeps all of your mail, whether you delete it or not (so they can sell your info), it labels it as All Mail and keeps it handy (so they can get revenue from it)
Mail maps Gmails labels to the nearest equivalent Mail folders, (Inbox to Inbox, All Mail to Archive etc). The Archive folder is a Mail created folder, but it is Gmail that is filling it, if you quit using that nasty spyridden junk the problem goes away.
Thank you for being a good source of information for Google to sell, more like you means that their profits go up.
How to stop auto-archive in Mail
