Delete old email messages

how can I delete old email messages, say anything more than a week old?

Try rebuilding the mailbox. (Select it, then choose Mailbox -> Rebuild.)

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How do I delete excess email messages from my iPhone. There are 300 messages listed, and every time I delete some, more are added from old messages. How do I limit the number of messages that can appear on my phone? How can I delete messages in bulk,

You can't.
All photos transferred from your computer are stored in the Photo Library. The photos in the album or albums below are not duplicates - they include a pointer to the original photos stored in the Photo Library. This way you can view the photos in a particular album only by selecting the album, or you can view all photos available in all albums by selecting Photo Library.
Just as with an iTunes playlist. A song cannot be in an iTunes playlist unless the song is in the main iTunes library. Placing a song in a playlist does not duplicate the song. Remove the main iTunes library or the songs from the main iTunes library that are in a playlist and the songs will no longer be in the playlist either. This way you can listen to the songs in the playlist only by selecting the playlist, or all songs in your entire iTunes library by selecting Music under Library in the iTunes source list.
The same with iPhoto on a Mac. A photo cannot be in an in iPhoto Event or Album unless the photo is in the main iPhoto library. Placing a photo in an Event or Album does not duplicate the photo. This way you can view the photos in an iPhoto Event or Album only by selecting the Event or Album, or all photos in all Events or Albums.

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I have some old email addresses, I think may be aliases that show up in the drop down box in the "From" in email messages that I send.
They don't show up anywhere in the Preferences/Accounts panel at all.
Very perplexed at this one.

From the Mail menubar, click Window and select Previous recipients. In there you can delete old email contacts.

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I just got a new iMac and after I added my MobileMe email address in Apple Mail, it started downloading 8,000 old email messages! I have checked in Apple Mail Preferences and in MobileMe mail preferences and I cannot figure out what I need to change in order to tell the MobileMe Mail server to delete all email messages that are over two years old. Can someone help me figure this out?
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There is no way to do this automatically with an Inbox that resides on the IMAP server. Such a time setting is only available with a POP3 server -- in which case deleting from the server does not delete from the Mac.
If you create a Smart Mailbox to segregate the older messages so you can manually delete them, then if you do that, they will not be on the old Mac either.
Ernie

Delete Old Mail Messages

I've just archived all my old email messages using MailSteward. I would now like to delete those same messages (prior to 12/31/2006) from the mail folders I have created. Is there any easy way to delete all messages older than a certain date from a Mail folder?

I just sort by date, select the most recent message I want to delete, then scroll to the oldest and shift-click it. Then delete. Alternately, you could probably create a smart mailbox to hold just the ones you want to delete, then select all and delete them from there. If this is something you do often, and the criteria by which you identify the messages are fixed, this would be worth the trouble of creating the smart mailbox. But it sounds like a one-time sort of thing, in which case the smart mailbox route is probably more trouble than it's worth.

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Why is it that when I delete an email message from an account on my iPhone it instantly disappears from the same email account on my wife's iPhone? We both have iOS7 and have imap email accounts.

not all mail providers sync the send mail part of the mail box
you can try to contact yahoo if this is the case with them

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How to delete multiple email messages from my Iphone 5C; email folder.

there used to be option to keep last 50,100,200 messages/emails. We need that back. This is ridiculous to delete one by one.

How to delete old emails in app store?

how to delete old emails in app store?

Yes, I am with KJ, I have no real idea what you are asking about. The app store does not usually have email involved with it.

HT1430 I can't delete 2 email messages. All others delete properly, however 2 will not delete no matter what I try. A pop up message comes up and says "cannot not delete"

I can't delete 2 email messages that I received on the same day from one of my email accts. I have **** down the device and reset the device with no resolution to the problem. I can forward these two messages to our other acct and it will delete from there but returns to my personal email again, repeatedly. All other messages that I have deleted from my acct delete properly. I get a pop up indicating that " the message cannot be deleted". How do I fix this?

Delete the mail account and setup again.

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Has there been a solution to delete old email addrss from the cache on a MAC? I'm not talking about iPhone or iPad devices. The last discussion on this topic was back in 2012 and it doesn't look as if this was resolved.
Bottom line, when you create an email on the mac, the auto fill pulls up every email address for an individual (current or not). The correct email address are in the contacts, but the cache is storing the really old address.
Suggestions are welcome.

Apart from the AddressBook, email addresses are also kept under 'Previous Recipients' in Mail, in the Window menu.

How do I delete all email messages in just one touch (delete all feature)?

Does anyone know how to perform a "delete all" in order to delete all email messages rather than going through each message one at a time to move from the inbox to the trash folder, then delete from the trash folder permanently? Currently, we seem to be able to only select one message at a time, rather than perform "Delete All".
I read in a forum post about the "Delete All" button being available only when pressing Edit in the Trash folder. Could someone please provide the sequence of steps to successfully delete all messages in one step? Thanks.
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It is not possible other than as described by yourself - singly to the Trash folder and then collectively from there if you so wish.

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How can I delete old email addresses that are no longer in use from my apple computer

Yes, just open mail and click on the window menu and select previous recipients, when the window opens start edit your email addresses.

How do I delete old email addresses from the pop up list that comes up when I put a letter into the "To" box. These addresses are not in my address book.

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Edit the list the comes up when you go to the Window menu and select "Previous Recipients".
charlie

How can I delete multiple email messages on my mobile device

HOw can I delete multiple email messages from my ipad and iPhone

Hello conniefromtulsa,
The process for deleting multiple messages is detailed in the iPhone User Guide:
Delete, move, or mark multiple messages. While viewing a list of messages, tap Edit. Select some messages, then choose an action. If you make a mistake, shake iPhone immediately to undo.
iPhone User Guide - Work with multiple messages
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/
Cheers,
Allen

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How to delete old emails quickly?

If you have an IMAP account (eg, Gmail) that another computer also has access to, or that you have webmail access for, the quickest way is probably to delete them on that computer rather than the iPad. If you must delete them directly from the iPad, you can click Edit at the top of the screen, highlight the emails that you want to delete (click the box at the left of each) then click Delete at the bottom.
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