Want to save space on iPod touch, but if I delete emails on iPod they are also deleted from server. Want to retain on server to download to Laptop later. Can find no settings to stop emails being deleted from server. Can anyone help ? Thanks
iPod touch, iOS 7
It's my iMac (not iPod as original poster) and it's not a space issue - it's that I don't like a million messages in my inboxes. I like to copy messages I want to keep into appropriate folders elsewhere on my computer and then delete from inboxes, but every so often I find myself needing to refer to an email in the past that's on the server that I didn't copy and save. With POP I could do this. Oh well...
Hi, I want the same thing, I just tried your suggestion but when deleting an email from Yahoo on my Ipod Touch, it still does it in Yahoo.
Is there any way around this? I have 500 MB of emails on my ipod, I need to save that space, but I want to keep these hundreds of emails in my Yahoo and Gmail servers.....
It sounds like you already download them from the server and then deleted them from the server.
All you can do is change the setting to never delete from server and then email the messages to yourself so they remain on the server.
mmm no. I have identical emails on both my Ipod Touch and my Yahoo account on the web. Whenever I delete one email on my Ipod Touch it will get automatically deleted on Yahoo web too. This is what I don't want.
Now, I can find no place where there is such "never delete from server" option within the email settings on iOS7 .....
Would you tell me more specifically what you mean and the procedure you are referring to?
I just went from POP to IMAP and now any messages I delete on my desktop (iMac) get deleted on the server even when set to Never delete messages. I'm assuming that is the nature of IMAP and the only way around it is to copy and save emails that you want to keep archived on your computer. Or is there a way to delete emails in an Apple Mail IMAP account but have them stay on the server?
Correct. IMAP is the method by which all of your devices can stay in sync with e mail. It is designed so that all computer/devices will show the same thing. I can't imagine that your e-mail takes up much space at all on your iPod.
Go to Settings>Mail>the mail account. Tap on the Advanced button and under Deleted Messages >Remove change to Never.
Settings>Mail>Yahoo>Account>Advanced>Deleted>messages>Remove. Set to Never
You can't. That is how IMAP works.
How do I stop emails from being deleted off server at the same time as I delete them from iPod touch. I want to save room on iPod but eant to keep emails on server for download to laptop
