All mail goes to my archive, I have set, in Preferences,that deleted mail goes to trash, but it does not do so, it all goes to archive
Secondly I cannot delete any messages from the archive. I have used delete, and then used erase all deleted mail form all mailboxes . But the messages reappear
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
Hi Valerie,
Moving mails to Archive instead of Deletion is also dependent on the mail service provider settings.
I am not sure which service do you use, But I would cite the example of Gmail.
Go to settings > Forwarding and IMAP/POP
Here, Set Auto Expunge On. If it is Off, The next section opens up that sends the deleted emails to Archive by Default.
Otherwise Set Auto Expunge Off and hit the option for moving the message to Trash.
IF I am not wrong the server settings are overlapping your Apple MAil preferences.
Wish That helps,
Thank you
Lindel
You wrote - All mail goes to my archive, I have set, in Preferences,that deleted mail goes to trash, but it does not do so, it all goes to archive .
If you create rules in IMAP account preferences and move mails to archive they will follow it and will not go to trash see this screen shot .
And 'bout - Secondly I cannot delete any messages from the archive. I have used delete, and then used erase all deleted mail form all mailboxes . But the messages reappear .
Read this old link How to permantl delete messages from Archive in OSX?
Thanks, I think you may be correct, but I found a way of removing the Archive box from the mail side bar, but what concerns me now is that gmail system is still putting messages into that archive folder, but just not showing it to me.It will therefore grow and fill up my memory, and I
cant actually delete it from the computer
Thanks ! to lindel 304 , learned about auto expunge .
Thanks, I ust did what you said, auto expunge was on , it is now off. Then" deleted messages go to trash" .Thanks it seems to work
delete messages from archive mailbox
