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 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.
Thanks, Melinda
I have this problem too, and most obviously since the upgrade to Yosemite.
My problem is that I understand so little of all these settings. Any other setting, do you reckon, that should be checked?
Best regards
Nina
Hi again Melinda
Do you think it's safe to delete all the emails in Archive?
The instructions were for getting rid of the Archive folder entirely in Mac Mail, not changing how the Mail program treats deleted messages. This article should help for that: http://jeffschuette.com/2012/03/07/setting-up-apple-mail-to-rock-and-roll-with-g mail/
If you don't want or need to keep the emails in Archive, yes, you can delete them. But don't delete them if you'd like to be able to refer to them later.
As for settings to check, it depends on what you're trying to do.
Thank you, Melinda.
It seems the Archive mailbox for Gmail has disappeared! The strange thing is that my main email account is with Virginmedia.com, and as far as I've understood it, they use Google's servers. When I changed the settings for this account but put Virginmedia as IMAP Path Prefix, the Sent folder disappeared! So I removed that, and it seems that the Archive for Virginmedia.com has also disappeared. How did this come about, I wonder!
Oh dear, this is Greek to me.
Best
Nina
Hi again Melinda,
It seems this actually did the trick! Thanks a lot!
Best
Nina
Thanks for your advice - very helpful!! I had both a Gmail and Yahoo accounts set up. I made the changes in Gmail and it worked... but am still having similar problems with Yahoo (i.e. everything is automatically going to the Archive folder in Mac Mail). Do you know where the setting are in Yahoo to do the same thing?
Hello All,
Melinda thank you for your help and knowledge. I have several gmail accounts that I access in Mac Mail. I often move the emails from one one inbox to another and then from an inbox to iCloud folders once I am done with them. Whenever I move mail to/from any folders I often find that the mail goes to an archive folder. Often mail that has been in a particular box will just move itself to archive. Any ideas? Any other info I need to provide?
Melinda, I do not see a window like this on my MacBook. Where do you access this? Is it in the Google Mail settings?
Thanks, JoAnn
Thank You !!!!! It worked.
Also, thank you for being civilized.... among the rudeness in this thread !
Hey, let's be civil toward each other. This website is here for us to help each other......yes ???
Worked a treat - THANK YOU!!
J
Thanks so much -- I hope this works!
I figured it out! Go to your Gmail account> Settings> Labels and about the 7th selection down, turn off "Show in IMAP" all the way to the right of "All Mail". I only read the first page of discussions. So I apologize if this was already figured out. If not, then I hope this helps! It worked for me.
It worked for one of my gmails, but I went to my other one to fix it right after I wrote my last post, and it doesn't even have the option to "show in IMAP", because my IMAP is off on that account..yet it still shows up for this particular account! How confusing! At least it worked for one of my accounts. Hopefully it'll help somebody.
I figured it out again, finally. Follow my first instructions, but make sure IMAP is enabled in Settings> Forwarding and POP/IMAP
How to stop auto-archive in Mail
