Auto delete trash in mail

How can I set an auto delete for trash in mavericks mail after either 2 months or 6 months?
thanks
Marianne

AFAIK, what you are describing is the only way to delete sent mail on the iPad. Depending on what email accounts you have, the specific email account may have advanced options, but the Mail app on the iPad works as you say. There is no option or preference to delete sent emails after a period of time.

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IMAP auto deleting trash

i'm having a nightmare with a new IMAP account, and need some help !
i've recently switched from POP to IMAP on my main email address in apple mail 3.6. to do this i disabled the POP a/c, created a new IMAP a/c and then copied over the messages from the old POP to new IMAP. then i applied the "use this mailbox as" instruction to synchronise the correct mailboxes with the server and webmail.
everything's working fine except the TRASH.
i have the mailbox behavours for the IMAP account set as follows :-
DRAFTS store on server
NOTES store in inbox
SENT store on server, delete never
JUNK store on server, delete when one week old
TRASH move deleted messages to trash, store on server, permanent erase never
i like to keep my trashed messages for at least a year so i can refer to them if necessary.
despite the preference setting above, TRASH is automatically deleting messages when they are over a week old. they are being deleted both in mail and on webmail. (fortunately i have the 5000 erased messages on time machine so i can restore them when i get this sorted.)
i've tried everything i know to try and fix it. i deleted the new IMAP account and started a new one but they're still being erased. i've tried switching "use this mailbox for" between the TRASH folder under MAILBOXES, and the one under the new IMAP account sub heading. no matter which one is under MAILBOXES, that's the one where the messages are deleted after one week.
the TRASH which is under the MAILBOXES sub heading is the one that syncs with the server and webmail.
there is no IMAP path prefix in the account prefs.
UK2 is my webhost and email account provider. there is no way to access any erase preferences in webmail & UK2 support says that mailbox accounts do not have an auto erase feature. messages stay on the server until the user removes them.
i would appreciate any suggestions as to how i can fix this. other IMAP accounts are working ok, and ive had a previous UK2 IMAP account that was ok too.
thanks very much.

after much badgering, my service provider (UK2) has finally admitted that their server is set to delete messages in the trash folder after seven days. so the problem wasn't mine afterall.
it's a shame they couldn't have told me this in the first place.

Anyway to auto delete trash

Hello,
We have a suite of macs that students use for their studies and we are trying to reduce some space on our servers, an issue is that students are not empty their trash, they put items in the trash but then leave it sat there, wondered if there any settings that could be put in place so that that is auto deleted upon log off or as soon as they drop an item in trash it is emptied?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks

yes, a logout hook sounds just the thing for it. it will empty trash when a user logs out.
If you have OS X server this can be easily managed from the server via workgroup manager.
you can also do it by hand as follows.
log in as an admin user.
use TextEdit to make a *plain text* file with content
#! /bin/bash
rm -rf /Users/$1/.Trash/*
save it as logoutscript.sh somewhere safe, say in /Library/Scripts.
then change permissions on this file to make it executable. run this in terminal
chmod 755 /library/scripts/logoutscript.sh
then make a logout hook. run the following terminal command
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /library/scripts/logoutscript.sh
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.
more on login and logout hooks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2420?viewlocale=en_US

I have to delete trash in Mail several times before it is removed.

Sometimes when I bounce unsolicited mail and other times when I try to delete mail in the trash.

Did you purchase the Mac new?
You have 14 calendar days from the time your items are delivered to initiate a return as noted here.
Even though you are past the 14 day limit, if it were me, I'd take the Mac back and explain what's going on. Your Mac should work out of the box.
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Sent Items in Mail not Auto-Deleting

Hi all,
I have sent items in mail to auto delete when quitting mail but this is not happening. Any ideas?

If I quit Mail manually, items get deleted.

How to set auto delete option for old messages

Hi All,
Can any one help me on how to set auto delete option for mails older than 15 days from my Z10.
James Kurian

There is no such option in BB 10.
However, you can achieve a similar result by setting your email sync timeframe to 14 days (the closest option).
If you are using an ActiveSync account (such as Hotmail, Outlook.com), go to Settings > Accounts > select the account. Tap advanced at the bottom of the screen. Scroll to the very bottom, tap Sync Timeframe and set to 14 days.
If you are using an IMAP account (such as Gmail or GMX), you will have to delete, then re-add your account. The Sync Time frame is only avaialble during setup for these accounts. When adding, tap advanced at the bottom of the screen and set the Sync Timeframe.
Hope this helps.

I've deleted all my mail in iCloud and also empty trash, but iCloud mail still occupied my iCloud storage for 1.9GB. What do I do?

Dear All,
I've deleted all my mail in iCloud and also empty trash, but iCloud mail still occupied my iCloud storage for 1.9GB. What do I do?
BR.

Hi OaksterMe,
In order to completely delete emails from your devices and free up space in iCloud, you should follow the steps in this article -
iCloud: Reduce email storage space
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Suddenly my trash box is empty and when I delete an e-mail it does not appear in the trash anymore

Just recently I've been receiving spam and e-mails not addressed to me. My "trash box" is empty and when I delete an e-mail it doesn't move to the trash box. I haven't made any changes. I don't appear to have a "junk" box and when I delete junk mail is just disappears.

fixed it myself..... problem gone

Is there a way to set trash to auto-delete

would like items in trash to auto-delete 30 days after being put into trash. is this possible?

No not with any built-in settings. You could Applescript something to accomplish this (or something similar)
However it is a bad idea to place things in the trash that you do not want to have removed immediately. The trash is not some kind of holding area, you should assume that anything put in the trash is gone and only put things there that you do want gone.
If you want a 30 day grace period on some items, setup another folder and put the things in there that you're not sure you want to delete and then run a script on that to move anything over 30 days to the trash (or delete immediately)

Have a question I do not use mail in my computer I use yahoo and I have all these emails and selected all and then delete then delete trash and they always come back how do I stop these old email in apple mail? I never send anything from there but I have

have a question I do not use mail in my computer I use yahoo and I have all these emails and selected all and then delete then delete trash and they always come back how do I stop these old email in apple mail? I never send anything from there but I have the same email in yahoo but delete them and they still show up in apple mail from day one how do I get rid of these once and for all.Please help
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I am soooooooooooo confused now. Ok, if you are having problems with Yahoo Mail and Gmail but you do not use Apple's Mail you need to do the following:
1 - Post in Yahoo's Mail forums and/or contact their tech support.
2 - Post in Gmails forums and/or contact their tech support.
Neither of the above are Apple's products.

Is the trash in my trashbox auto deleted after so many days?

I notice that the trash can't be cleared like my other boxes..Aparrently it auto deletes is this right?

Cooljoe58 wrote:
Aparrently it auto deletes is this right?
No.
Cooljoe58 wrote:
I notice that the trash can't be cleared like my other boxes.
Click on Help in the Finder Menu Bar and type Trash into the Search Window... Select from the displayed Topics.

Sent mail showing up as Unread; multiple Drafts that don't auto-delete

I found an old 2008 thread that describes this pretty well: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1372415&start=15&tstart=0
We're running Leopard 10.5.8, and the mail account is IMAP (not mac.com or gmail or fusemail, but our business mail hosted on a Verio server.) Recently, messages being composed and automatically saved as a Draft (which I know is normal) got multiple draft copies which do not auto-delete when the message is sent. Also, some messages in the Sent box show up as unread.
I think we've got Drafts set to save to the server. But it's worked fine up until just recently.

Also, is there a way for me to create/import my mail folders in the iPhone? Before when it was a yahoo account (rather than a POP) I could create folders in the yahoo webmail interface and they would show up, but that's not the case with a POP account.
Or what about IMAP? I think Yahoo Plus supports IMAP now, how would that work with Mac Mail?
Thanks.
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I've deleted all of mail, including trash and sent folders, but my mail usage stays high at around 1.4 gb. What am I missing?

I've deleted all of mail, including trash and sent folders, but my mail usage stays high at around 1.4 gb. What am I missing?

It is possible it just hasn' updated yet.
Try resetting:
Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons and don’t let go until the screen goes dark and the Apple logo appears (no data will be lost)

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Mac Mail Freezes When I try to Delete Trash

Mac Mail Freezes when I try to delete trash. Spinning wheel of death goes for 10 - 15 minutes and freezes the entire computer. Please Help!

BDAqua -& Thoma_r - I did a safe boot, did repair permissions. 2 of the "Permission Differs" messages:
Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
Permissions differ on "Library/Application Support/ProApps/Internal Plug-Ins/BrowserKit/iLife.bkplugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x . and around 30 more... Nothing about MacMail that I could tell.
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Is this MacMail?
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