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why is it that even after I deleted messages in my mail app they seem to reappear

why is it that even after I delted messages in my mail app they seem to reappear ?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), iOS 7.1

Posted on Apr 22, 2014 3:28 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2014 4:17 PM

Try Mailbox > Rebuild from Mail's menu.


That should solve it. If not, consider reindexing spotlight as shown here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409

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Aug 18, 2014 9:32 AM in response to seguiric

This solution did not work for me, but I did find this other one which could help other people:


(1) Get Apple Mail to reindex your Emails

- quit the Mail App (cmd + Q)

- go to ~/Library/Mail/ inside your homefolder and delete the file “Envelope Index”

- start Apple Mail


On relaunch, Mail went through a long process of reindexing everything, and it did fail a couple of times (to try again, just re-open Mail). But once I got through that, everything worked great.

why is it that even after I deleted messages in my mail app they seem to reappear

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