No history option- unread messages are deleted?

I set my history option to no history and I logged in yesterday but I wasn't able to read all the messages and logged off. When I logged in today, all the notifications disappeared. Even when I clicked on one person's messages that I know sent me a message, it was blank.. Am I able to view what they sent me somehow? by checking logs or something? Why does it clear messages I clearly didn't read?

Maybe you have applied a setting so that it shows only unread messages.
In the menu, '''View|Folders|All''' - yours may be set to "Unread",
No menu? Press the <alt> button on your keyboard.
There is also the QuickFilter which sits above your list of messages. This has a button for "Unread" too.

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I rarely check my email on my iPad mini. But when I do hundreds of unread messages are downloaded, all of which I've read on my computer. Then I have to select each message to delete it, or all selected as a batch. How do I see recents only?

I rarely check my email on my iPad mini. But when I do hundreds of unread messages are downloaded, all of which I've read on my computer. Then I have to select each message to delete it. How do I see recents only?

deltajane wrote:
My iphone4 and my ipad mini were synced to my computer, but now I don't seem to be able to see all of my content nor my photo stream. I did see everything there several weeks ago, so I know it worked. How do I access those from my computer. I can't find how to sign on.
This is the article that will assist with this part of your post:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4486
deltajane wrote:
I signed on to iCloud, but it only shows the icons for Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Find Phone, Numbers, Pages and Keynotes. Where's everything else ?
What you've outlined in this part of the post is all that icloud stores for you outside of the backup. If you want to restore from the icloud backup you will then have for all practical purposes a carbon restoration back to your device if you restore from the icloud backup.
deltajane wrote:
I want to delete photos that are on my iphone, by doing so from the computer, not my phone.
Syncing your device with itunes will then enable you to remove whatever photos you wish to remove from your device deleting them with the computer and not the iphone.

I am unable to see any POP3 or IMAP tab when I set up an account in my iphone 4S. Hence by default all my email accounts become IMAP and the messages are deleted from the server when I delete them from the iphone.

I am unable to see any POP3 or IMAP tab when I set up an account in my iphone 4S. Hence by default all my email accounts become IMAP and the messages are deleted from the server when I delete them from the iphone.

ok sorry everyone but i solved it myself but the solution is so nuts i've posted it here to help others who have the same problem.
to setup a comcast imap account on your iphone:
go to mail, contacts, etc in settings
under accts, select add account
select "other"
new screen, choose "add mail account"
now on the new acct screen you must enter your name, email address and password for your GMAIL acct ! (yes i said your gmail acct !, or some other acct with a NON comcast address).
hit next
then the acct verifies
when verified a screen will open with all the acct settings for this acct AND @ the top of the screen are the 2 buttons > imap or POP
select imap and THEN CHANGE ALL THE ACCOUNT information to the comcast account !
then hit next and the account will take a couple minutes to verify but it will verify and now you have a comcast imap acct set up on your iphone. The problem must be that when the iphone sends the initial verify acct info to comcast (if you enter that information first) the comcast server is simply not setup yet to signal the iphone that there is an imap option.

Messages are deleted automatically and i cannot find them

if I do not read and delete the next time I go in messages that where there will just automatically disappear and it will still show messages in inbox unread but when you look for them they are not in trash or folders or inbox

Maybe you have applied a setting so that it shows only unread messages.
In the menu, '''View|Folders|All''' - yours may be set to "Unread",
No menu? Press the <alt> button on your keyboard.
There is also the QuickFilter which sits above your list of messages. This has a button for "Unread" too.

My unread messages are not in a bold font.

How do you get unread messages in bold font? I have the new Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I am not using the classic view and it is checked off in preferences to have this feature.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.

I'm using Apple Mail and I want to do my vacation message in Apple Mail.
In Apple Mail there's an option for "send copy always to me", but it doesn't work for auto-respond.

When text messages are deleted are they gone for good?

My daughter accidentally deleted messages that I need for court. Is there any way to retrieve them after she cleared my conversation ?

The only way to possibly retreive them would be a restore from backup created after the messages were received but prior to them being deleted.
If you do not regularly sync and backup the device, they are gone.

TS3276 when deleting 1 message from my email, 2 messages are deleted?

When I delete a message from my mac email, sometimes 2 messages will be deleted. I haven't read the 2nd message and have to go to undo to get the deleted message. How do i correct this?

Are you sure your not deleting a conversation rather than an e-mail?

If messages are deleted from an itouch that is synced the same Apple ID and phone number, how can you get them to delete from the phone as well?

how do I delete messages from both my itouch and my iphone

You have to delete the messages from the individual device. If you delete messages on one device, messages on the other are not automatically deleted.

My text messages are deleting before I can read them

My text messages delete before I can read them. I can see that someone attempted to text my phone but the message isn't there. Anyone else have this issue?

Try reset iPad
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
Note: Data will not be affected.

HELP! I dropped my Centro and now all my messages are deleted - saved and all.

I dropped my Centro and the back cover and battery fell off and out. I replaced them, the phone turned back on, and I went to continue a text conversation I was having. However, when I went to my messages, everything was gone - including some very important saved messages. I tried taking the battery out again but it didn't help. Can anyone help me?
Post relates to: Centro (AT&T)

prior to the incident were you able to hotsync your phone to your PC?
if yes you can retrieve those SMS from the backup folder inside your username folder look for messaging.PDB double click and you can install it back to your phone.

Deleting all emails for 1 of 2 email accounts in the Message area

Background:
I do not have Blackberry Enterprise ServerI have 2 email accounts setup on my Blackberry Pearl 8130:
1 personal Yahoo account and 1 work account
Everything works fine, I receive email for both accounts, all is good. Except that I get 200+ emails a day on my work account!I do not want to go in and delete work emails one by one or in groups The lowest number of days I can choose to choose in General Options -> Keep Messages is 15 days (and it looks like that is an overall setting, I would like 2 days for my work account and 3 months for my personal account which is a whole other question)
So, I deleted my work account from the Email Settings thinking that all emails linked to the work email account would ‘go away’, then I will just recreate the account later. BUT all the emails are still in the Messages area, all 1500+ work emails that I want to get rid of.
Question:How can I, without going 1 by 1 or in groups of emails, have all the emails in the Messages area deleted that are for a specific email account?I do want and need to keep my personal email on my phone so I can’t just in and “Delete Prior” as it will delete my personal emails that I need to keep on my phone
Any thoughts?
Or does it matter if at some point I end up with 10K emails? I'm not sure.
Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Since you can't do a Delete Prior, the only other options is to hold down the SHIFT button (lower left button, may look like aA) to scroll and select groups of emails to delete. There isn't a way to only show emails from a certain group to delete. You can either delete all at once, Delete Prior by the date, or select groups of messages.
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N9 IMAP4 messages are not deleted on the server

Emails deleted on N9 are not deleted (nor marked for deletion) in IMAP4 account on the server? I can see "unprocessed" emails in modest/evolution/thunderbird/webmail (after resync) which I have already deleted on the N9. I have deleted the account, set it up again on the N9, these deleted messages are there back (just like all other email clients and webmail show them). Need this feature working, otherwise email on N9 is useless. Paul

Hey Hey, I fixed my N9 IMAP mail!!!
First off, when I sent mail, I noticed it wasn't going to my primary Sent folder, but a legacy folder on my IMAP server called "Sent Messages".
Even after deleting this folder from the server, mail still was not captured to the correct "Sent" folder and I still got the connection error messages on every Sync.
So I cleaned house on my IMAP server and deleted all kinds of old folders like:
.INBOX/Sent
.INBOX/Trash
BadTrash
OldTrash
OldSent
Sent Messages
Then I removed and re-added the IMAP account on my N9, and BANG it works!
No more connection error messages, sent mail goes to the correct place, and deleted messages are deleted from the server.
Obviously, the problem as previously stated in this thread is when the N9 client initially connects to an IMAP account. It seems to latch onto the first Trash and Sent messages it finds, even if you don't use those folder.
In my case, it latched onto "Sent Message" for sent, and some invalid file for Trash (hence the connection error messages).
Much better now, but I can't help to wonder what kind of IMAP logic is lacking on the N9 that Modest had on the N900 to have these kinds of problems....

Why are new unread messages marked as read?

These problems popped up out of the blue last week. Nothing has changed in the Mail settings. I've worked with my ISP to isolate the problem as a Mac problem, not an ISP issue.
1. The new messages downloaded into Mail are not marked as unread, even if they they've never been opened or previewed. An occasional email will mark as unread. However, even if 5-10 new emails are downloaded at a time, they will usually all be identified as read.
The unread count doesn't change, even when new unread messages are downloaded.
2. At the same time that the issue popped up with the unread emails, a new Mail issue started. When Mail checks for updates it often shows that a new email is being downloaded and gives the audio alert for a new mail, but nothing has actually downloaded. I've checked my filters, trash and web mail to confirm that no new emails exist.
What I've tried:
1. There are no software updates.
2. Worked with ISP to identify the issue as being a Mail issue. Settings are all appropriate.
3. Disabled Mail account, shut down Mail, shut down Mac, restarted Mac, enabled Mail. Problem continues.

This might be way off base because I do not have a really good understanding of email systems, but look at these:
1. When you Sync your iPhone, under the "Info" tab in iTunes, do you have it set to sync your email settings? If this is not checked, your iPhone and computer Mail settings could be different and Mail could think you read a message on your iPhone when you haven't.
2. In Settings in your iPhone, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Your Account>Account Info>make sure everything is correct here and then>Advanced> check incoming settings and see if there is anything in IMAP Path Prefix. I think this should be blank for your POP account.
Also, since this is a POP account, by definition, if you have read a message, shouldn't it be excluded from your Inbox? I'm guessing there is a IMAP vs POP conflict somewhere.

MAIL: Trying to settle long-lasting problem. Mail always immediately downloads the messages I delete from any IMAP mailbox. I'm running out of HD space!

BACKGROUND
I only have 60GB of space on my MacBook Air. Currently, three long-standing IMAP accounts are taking up over 7GB of it!
I have seen several related discussions about this kind of problem, but they all seem to have been solved or glossed over with setting up the IMAP interaction so that messages are deleted from the server in addition to the device or with a "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" fix that doesn't work for me. I like being able to save all of my email history on servers (I'm often surprised by how many years back I have to search to find a piece of information I need), but I can no longer stand losing so much of my very limited local space to really old mail.
PROBLEM
I'll refer to just one of the relevant accounts as "Gmail," since that's in parentheses when seen in these screenshots. These are its current Mailbox Behaviors settings:
Under my Gmail Inbox in Mail, I have deleted every message from before 2013. The mail from 2013 is all that I want stored on my MacBook Air.
Ultimately, I think this has something to do with the Archive (seen in the sidebar above, as well). Even when I've deleted everything from before 2013 in my Inbox, AND emptied the entire contents of Trash manually, the Archive still contains all of the mail from the server (yes, this account was started in 2011, but I have others that go back much further).
The cherry on top is that when I delete the same messages from the Archive as I've deleted from the Inbox, Mail immediately begins re-downloading all of those messages. Last time I tried this my laptop had to download 23000 messages, but here's a screenshot of proof with a smaller sample:
In case my Gmail server settings are useful to consider, here they are:
Final Notes
• There's a lot that I don't know about exactly how IMAP communication occurs between a device and a server. For my sake and the sake of anyone else who needs this kind of help, please clarify terms like "flags" and "archive" (since Gmail and Mail both use the term and I don't know think they mean exactly the same thing) if/when you use them.
• If anyone does think that there's some sort of "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For" solution to this, you should know that no matter what I have selected in Mail's sidebar (at no matter what level of indentation), the options available under that menu item are always grayed-out.
• I want to keep using Mail. There's a lot that I like about it and I don't want to switch to Thunderbird or something else (remember, I need to save as much local space as I can).
• I just upgraded to 10.9.0 Mavericks, but this problem has existed for me and behaved essentially just like this as long as I can remember. In fact, I think I recall the problem still existing before there was an Archive in the sidebar at all.

UPDATE
I still have the problem, but when I checked on this post to see if anyone had commented and I simply hadn't received an e-mail, I noticed that all but the last of the images I included have stopped displaying (I had friends check, too). Most of them were just visual examples of what I was explaining in hopes of giving context and all available info that I may not have personally viewed as relevant, but the first one, about my account's Mailbox Behaviors settings sure is important. These are the settings I have:
• Store draft messages on the server — Check
• Store sent messages on the server — Check
• Delete sent messages — One month old
• Store junk messages on the server — Check
• Delete junk messages — One week old
• Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox — Grayed-out and Check
• Store deleted messages on the server — Grayed-out and Check
• Permanently erase deleted messages when — Quitting Mail
I hope this helps. Please comment if I'm leaving out any other important information.

Unread emails are not listed in BOLD

I have my Mail Preferences for Viewing set to "Display unread messages with bold font" and it has always worked properly until today. Unread messages are not in bold font. I repaired permissions, rebooted, opened and closed Mail several times, toggled the preference off and on--yet new unread email messages are still not in Bold. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks.

quit Mail and delete (or move to the desktop) the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. start Mail. you'll have to recreate all your email accounts so make sure you know all the settings before you try this. once the accounts are recreated they should recognize their existing mailboxes.
if you have a backup you can restore that file from backup instead of recreating everything.

No history option- unread messages are deleted?

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