Automatically Empty Trash in Mail

Is there a way to setup mail so that it will empty my trash say once a week? I looked in automator, but I did not find an action to do this. If I forget to check my trash, the next thing I know, I'm almost out of space on my email account. I am using an IMAP server setup if that makes a difference. Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
Thanks

in mail preferences->accounts->mailbox behavior there is an option to permanently delete messages in trash after a certain time. the default is 1 week I believe. That means that you don't have to do anything.

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How i can stop the automaticall empty trash?
when i move a file to trsh , i recieve the massage from the finder asked me the password, thereafter, i do Ok , then the file move to trash, when i open the trash i found it empty automatically

i did already , but still the same problem .
when i do move the trash, i recieved a massage titled " Finder wants to make changes. type your password to allow this" , i do Ok , then the file directly moved to trash , but when i go to the trash i found it empty.

ICloud email automatically emptying trash?

I've used Apple email services for some time (I still use my .mac address). I primarily access my email from the Mail.app on two computers (Mac Pro and Macbook Air) and from my iPhone.
I've noticed that my deleted emails have been disappearing from the Trash mailbox. This isn't a huge deal for me since I'm not nutty about archiving and saving every email (like Gmail wants you to do), but I have lost some emails that I wish I still had. Since I haven't been paying that close attention, I do not know how long this has been happening.
I checked the preferences for my iCloud email for the Mail.app on both computers I use-- both are setup to never delete emails from the Trash.
Then I logged into iCloud, thinking maybe there's a setting in there that's delteing the emails. Sure enough, just below the option to "Move deleted messages to: [Trash]" it says, "Messages will be deleted from the trash after 30 days."
How can I turn this off? Is it even possible? Is this now a permanent fixture in iCloud? (If so, it may be time for me to make the dreaded move to Gmail. Not that I'm a nut about saving emails, but I am a nut about user control.)
Thanks.

Hi trident,
Here is the help screen for iCloud:
Change where deleted messages are stored
By default, deleted messages are stored in the Trash for 30 days. If you don’t want your messages to be automatically deleted after 30 days, you can have the Delete command move them to another folder.
Choose Preferences from the Action pop-up menu at the top of the window.
In the General pane, select the “Move deleted messages to” checkbox, choose another folder from the menu, and click Done.
You don't have to do anything special - just create an alternate folder, and select that in the iCloud preferences for Deleted Mail. Once you have assigned a different folder name (TRASH2, for example), then it will automatically go to that folder when you delete it. And then you will retain complete user control of when your deleted emails go away....
Hope this helps,
GB

Anyway to "Automatically empty trash"?

So like my subject title says, I am wondering if their is anyway to setup Snow Leopard so that it reserves no space for the files that are sent to the trash; and make it automatically delete a file whenever I delete it without having to empty the trash?
For example, in Windows XP I was able to set the trash so that it would automatically delete a file off my hard drive instead of just sending it into the trash bin. And that is what I want to be able to do on my Mac.

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter ~/.Trash/ as the path, click on an empty space in the window, choose Get Info from the File menu, and set the permissions so you can't write to that folder. This needs to be repeated for each external drive, using /Volumes/volumename/.Trashes/501/ as the path. If 501 doesn't work, increment the number until it does.
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Error while trying to empty trash on mail

hi there,
i use my gmail account on the mail app and i often get an error messages after im trying to move mails from one folder to another as i quit, then i hit 'ok' and the only way i can quit the app is using 'force quit',
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thanks!!

I always delete whole backup, never just particular file. Should be save according to site you pointed me at:
Sometimes you may want to delete ALL backups. Sounds easy, but like so many things, it depends on the circumstances:
If there is other data on the volume, you can delete the Backups.backupdb folder, but it will take a very long time (as there may be from several hundred thousand to a few million files), and you may have trouble with locked files and/or permissions. If possible, it’s much better to delete the backups individually as above, or copy the other data elsewhere temporarily, erase the volume with Disk Utility, and copy the data back. (This is why a separate partition for Time Machine backups is advised.)
I see the "you can". :-)

Empty trash automatically sooner than 30 days??

Any way to empty trash automatically sooner than 30 days?? In preferences, it states that messages will be deleted from trash in 30 days. I do not want deleted mail hanging around that long. I have applied rules to certain spam/junk emails which moves them directly to the trash when it comes in, but I do not want this mail sitting in my trash... I want it gone! I would actually prefer to have this junk automatically bounced or removed altogether, but there is no option to do that. I hate the fact that there is so little customization possible with the iCloud mail.

You can delete individual messages from a conversation or delete entire conversations
Go in to Messages - look for the Edit button at the top left - clicking it will enable you to select multiple conversations that you can delete
For deleting individual messages - you have to open the conversation - then tap and hold your finger on a message till you get the "More" pop up. Click on "More" and that as well as other messages become select-able and there is a trash can at the left bottom to click on when you are done selecting them

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

Mail app not automatically deleting trash emails

iTunes 11.1.2.32 Windows 7 32 Bit
iPhone 4S (and iPhone 4)
iOS 7.0.3
I have my own domain name for my email.
I can access via POP3 SSL and IMAP SSL
My first iPhone was a 4 which i used July 2010 to July 2012. I July 2012 i upgraded to my current 4S.
I use Windows Mail on my PC to access my email via POP3 SSL as i have no need to keep messages on a server any longer than i need to.
I use the Mail app on my iPhone to access the messages via IMAP SSL. Up until iOS 7 i would check my emails using the iPhone and delete any messages to the Trash folder On My iPhone (not on the server). I would have it set to delete the deleted messages After One Day so i had a 24 hour safety buffer.
This way i could use the iPhone as a quick check on my email and also use it as a Spam filter. If i needed to reply to an email from my iPhone I would and cc myself in if i needed a copy. One or twice a week i would fire up the PC and download the messages in the Inbox to the PC in Windows Mail.
This arrangement worked flawlessly for 3 years until i updated to iOS 7. Now the deleted messages in my Trash folder stay there until i manually remove them. I've tried:
-deleting and resetting up the account again in the iPhone
-changing the setting to One Month, saving the change and then setting it back to One Day and saving the setting.
-checked with my domain/email provider that i'm using the correct settings.
-changed IMAP Path Prefix from \ to INBOX, which works the first time but then fails to work again (i.e. each time i change it to \ and then back to INBOX it clears everything over a day old at that point but then doesn't do it again)
My wife has my old iPhone 4 without a SIM and uses it as an email checker for her account as well as for surfing the net and Facebook etc. She has the same setup as me (but seperate email account on my Domain) it all worked fine on that too until the update to iOS 7.
Is there a setting that might have gone out of line here or something i've missed?

There are actually two settings that could have a bearing on this:
Preferences > General > Check for New Mail
Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Include when automatically checking for new mail
Also, go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network > Show: Network Port Configurations, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
Do you have any Mail plug-ins or any system utilities that could interfere with Mail? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/StartupItems/
/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
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Why is the trash automatically emptied on my email account?

My emails used to be saved in the trash and I kept all of them for future reference. Now they just disappear. Is there a setting I can change to change this?

''re: My emails used to be saved in the trash and I kept all of them for future reference.''
'Trash' is for items you do not want. 'Trash' means 'Rubblish' to throw away; discard; delete.
They are only in the Trash because you selected to 'delete' them or you moved them manually.
The reason for having a 'Trash' folder is to act as a stop gap because sometimes you might delete an email in error and want to rescue it.
Trash folder is not the place to store items that you want to keep.
Please create new folders to organise your wanted emails.
Use 'Trash' for unwanted emails.
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or
Menu Icon > Options > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
uncheck/select as appropriate: 'Empty Trash on exit'
click on OK.
If you have an Imap mail account, there may be a different policy used by the server. Some auto empty Trash folder periodically by default and there is nothing you can do about it. After all, Trash is for unwanted items, so after a period of time allowing for rescuing an email deleted in error, they clear this folder to create more space.
Background info:
When you select to delete an email or put it in 'Trash', from your point of view it moves from eg: inbox to 'Trash'
In reality, it is still in the Inbox as a 'marked as deled' email hidden from view. So it is still taking up space in the Inbox.
When you compact your Inbox folder those 'marked as deleted' are removed, thus freeing up space.
When you see a folder in the Folder Pane, this is actually an mbox file (assuming you Pop mail account or synchronise subscribed imap folders).
When emails are downloaded they are not stored as individual .eml files, they are stored one after the other in the order they were downloaded in the same 'file'. So you do not want to put all your emails into a single or a couple of files.
Create folders to organise mail into smaller subsets.
Archive older mail to free up space in regular used folders.
See info on Archiving.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages

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I have the Mail App setup for gmail's IMAP configuration. I have set up the client to store both locally and the server for the TRASH folder. gMail automatically deletes trash in 30 days but I am trying to enhance that feature by allowing MAIL to handle this for me. And as you would have guess, I want less than 7 days too.
So I developed a script that when run removes the trash greater than 3 days. But as soon as I do it the TRASH is added back from the server. It seems to work but doesn't stick.
Here is my script if someone is curious:
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Why does empty trash automatically Secure Empty Trash?

Hi
Ive searched many forums but cant find an answer.
Whenever I empty my trash (running latest Snow Leopard), it automatically secure empties it. I dont want this as it takes too long (I know its more secure etc) however I am time poor and really need to just empty trash normally!
Any ideas would be most welcome!
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I am getting disc full messages on my Mac, unable to empty trash because not enough space, how do I proceed or do I need to increase my 4gig of memory in which case how do I go about this process.

You are confusing RAM (Random Access Memory) with hard drive data storage space.
Your hard drive storage is getting too full if you can't empty your Mac's main trash.
Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible
You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER
With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
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( as you mentioned, you can't empty this as your hard drive is too full.)
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If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
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Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
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Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
Good Luck!

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Back up all data before proceeding.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
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Need help on emptying trash

The trash recipient always appear to cointain 17 messages but I can't see them.
I empty trash but there are always the same 17 messages there. Even I can't see any message incoming directly to this recipient. The only messages I can see, are the ones moved from other recipients to trash.
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Hola quedius.
I don’t fully understand what you say. What is this “recipient” you’re talking about?
BTW, feel free to post in Spanish or Catalan if that’s easier for you -- I’ll continue replying in English, though. Alternatively, you can go to System Preferences > International and move English to the top of the list. The next time you launch Mail, it'll be all in English, which would make your life in these forums easier.

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