Deleted emails keep re-appearing in inbox

For about the 10th time, I've re-received some emails that I had deleted. I even deleted them from the trash folder to see if they were just moved back in from there. Some of the emails (newest ones), reappear as "un-read", and the others show as read. I have iphone 3gs on 3.1.3 fw. Has anyone had this issue? and if so have a solution? Thx

Not sure how Yahoo works, but it might not be deleting the messages off the server. Have a look in:
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > [Your Yahoo account]
Tap the 'Advanced Settings' at the bottom of the pop-up.
Under 'Incoming Messages', see what "Delete from server' is set to.
If it's set to 'Never', try 'When removed from inbox'.
That means it will remove if once you delete it out of your inbox and it shouldn't get confused and download it again. If you have other email clients, such as on your Mac or iPad, they will, of course, no longer be able to download those messages once they've been deleted via your iPhone. The other option is to set to delete them after 7 days, which gives you time to download the messages on another computer.

Similar Messages

Mail sync with gmail problems - deleted emails keep re appearing

Learned all,
Upgraded to Mavericks and my main (work) email client is gmail forward to my mac. I simply can't delete emails from my inbox, they re appear after every sync. If I delete them on my phone they re appear after a sync. They remain in the google mail/gmail inbox, as accessed in a browser, marked deleted but still sitting in my inbox. I haven't noticed this before but then I haven't really looked.
This is bizarre, and fundamental. I have read the TidBITS article and cringe at the thought of having all my emails load back up to my mac. Also cringe at all the other accounts of issues that this resolution doesn't fix. My temporary work around - disable my gmail work email account on my mac, forward all emails from gmail to my icloud mail account/client. The biggest problem, and a show stopper, is that I can't send emails via icloud from my work email address. I assume that you can't add an alias with a different domain name? Anyway I had 3 and have to wait 7 days after deleting one before I can add another. 7 days??
Any wisdom or learnings from out there? Any advise appreciated, thanks.

Thank you, Ernie.
These are all IMAP. I see trash on the server and on MAIL. deletine Trash used to work from MAIL, but in last 4 months, if I want something to take effect, I work from the web mail of go daddy and MAIL gets the message.
So you suggest I go to Gmail and set up accounts ( I assume they will walk me through ) (starting from my current gmail acct that my android uses-- or start from scratch?) to receive email addressed to my current email addresses? Then by not transfering out of goDaddy, I won't lose lots of email and mail files, folders in the transition?
There is a discussion on this topic of GoDaddy delays, from 2010 and 2011. So I may not be alone with the problem now.
Best,
Gayle

Deleted emails keep re-appearing ??

Hi All
Very strange thing keeps happening over the last week or so :-
I have 3 email accounts on my iPhone when I delete any of these emails after reading them ( and emptying the trash ) they mysteriously keep re-appearing back in my in-box when I return to the iPhone after I turn it back on.
The emails are no longer on the main servers they originated from as I have deleted them after downloading them to their respective email accounts.
Has anybody experienced this ? and more important what if any is the fix for what appears to be a bug.
Kind Regards
Corrie

WOW! The same exact thing keeps happening to me! I went into the Apple Store and was told to try deleting the email account and then re-entering it. It's still doing the same thing! Please fix this! I am 100% sure it's related to the 4.0 update I did on my phone....never did it before the update, and now it does!

Deleted emails keep coming back to inbox

I've deleted emails off iPad inbox, yet they come back and I'm constantly being kicked out of the mail section!!
Emails on iPhone are fine!

You posted to the wrong forum for your signature. See this tip:
Site map of Communities and Categories
Once you are certain which e-mail program is having the trouble, and its version, also state that, so people can help you with the right setup.

Deleted emails keep returning to my inbox on my new macbook air! How can I stop this?

I recently upgraded from a Macbook to a Macbook Air and now some emails that I delete return to my inbox almost immediately. I've never experienced this issue before and it's kind of frustrating. How can I fix this?

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore is not, in itself, a solution.
First, empty the Trash, if possible.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

Deleted email keeps re-appearing.

I have had this problem off and on in the past. It is back and worse than ever. I is bad enough I might chuck my iPhone in the river. I use cox.net for my email. My iPhone is set to remove messages from the server when deleted from the inbox.
Thanks,
Greg

WOW! The same exact thing keeps happening to me! I went into the Apple Store and was told to try deleting the email account and then re-entering it. It's still doing the same thing! Please fix this! I am 100% sure it's related to the 4.0 update I did on my phone....never did it before the update, and now it does!

TS3276 why the emails keep coming into my inbox after I delete them?

My emails keep coming into my inbox after I deleted them. Why is that?

It sounds like your ISP's Mail Server is an IMAP type that retains the Mail on the Server. You need to go into your Mail> Preferences>Accounts> and set the Mail to Delete from the Server, after a set amount of time.
Hope this helps

Mail account doesn't work properly, deleted messages keep re-appearing, others seem to disappear and reappear at random.

deleted messages keep re-appearing, others seem to disappear and reappear at random

I have the same problem. Thankfully one which was missing came back. I printed it out and made a PDF of it since it was an important one I'd been looking for.
I have three icloud email accounts which folders for each one. Now they mostly come up in my inbox instead of the correct folder and they won't move to the correct one.
Come on Apple, fix this.

Deleted emails keep coming back on my iPad Air

Deleted emails keep coming back on my ipad air

Reset the device:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If that doesn't help, tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
No data is lost due to a reset.

After upgrading to Mountain Lion my deleted emails keep coming back. I cannot get rid of them.

After upgrading to Mountain Lion my deleted emails keep coming back. I cannot get rid of them.

Hello waybk,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
Configuring Mail for your email account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1277
Check if Mail> Preferences>Accounts> and set the Mail to Delete from the Server
Have a nice day,
Mario

I have a macbook, an ipad, and an iphone with the Mail app on all three synced through icloud, but when I read and delete emails on my phone, the inbox on my ipad is not update, so I have to go through and mark as read or delete messages again. How can I

I have a macbook, an ipad, and an iphone with the Mail app on all three synced through icloud, but when I read and delete emails on my phone, the inbox on my ipad is not update, so I have to go through and mark as read or delete messages again. How can I sync my iphone and ipad? (it seems like each is synced only to my laptop, so don't synchronize until I go home and use my laptop.

POP: yahoo, aol, comcast/time warnder/road runner
Imap: google, hotmail, and more including icloud.
If you want to use multiple devices - move to imap, I would even say "exchange", but Google does not support free exchange anymore, since January of that year. So Ironically Icloud or Hotmail would be my choices right now.
To find out more about what happens to you, search on Google "difference between pop and imap"

Deleted emails keep returning

Why do deleted emails keep returning on my mac? I use Mavericks OS.

Gmail makes it difficult to permanently erase messages.
Go to Gmail's web interface. Delete them there. Search in All Mail, select them, delete them, empty Gmail's Trash. Do this recursively until you can no longer find them anywhere.
After this it will take your iMac's Mail some time to sync with Gmail.
Then, examine your Gmail account settings in Mail. Verify that you have instructed Gmail to eventually delete messages.
Example:

Deleted emails keep reappearing-GoDaddy delay the cause.. How to relocate to gmail?

For 4 months my deleted emails keep reappearing 3-5 times. After 4 consultations with my web and mail host, GODaddy and 4 with Apple Geniuses and both blaming the other, An Apple trainer opined, and a GoDaddy supervisor Reluctlantly confirmed that there is a long delay in GoDaddy when I delete email in MAIL. Go Daddy sup admitted that they have had this problem for the same period I have been going crazy with it. He suggested that since they did not know when it would be fixed that I move my email accounts (not my web sites) from GoDaddy to Gmail, but not to do itmyself, or I might lose much! Apple genius does not wan to do it, nor does GoDaddy! Any suggestions?

Thank you, Ernie.
These are all IMAP. I see trash on the server and on MAIL. deletine Trash used to work from MAIL, but in last 4 months, if I want something to take effect, I work from the web mail of go daddy and MAIL gets the message.
So you suggest I go to Gmail and set up accounts ( I assume they will walk me through ) (starting from my current gmail acct that my android uses-- or start from scratch?) to receive email addressed to my current email addresses? Then by not transfering out of goDaddy, I won't lose lots of email and mail files, folders in the transition?
There is a discussion on this topic of GoDaddy delays, from 2010 and 2011. So I may not be alone with the problem now.
Best,
Gayle

Oicnnot delete emails that show up in my inbox. The email says this message has no content with a date of 12/31/00. The emails keep multiplying in my inbox

I cannot delete emails that show up in my inbox. The email says this message has no content with a date of 12/31/00

I have this problem too.
The entire email says
((No Sender)
(No Subject)
This message has no content
Two are dated 12/31/69
and one came in today at 8:34pm (This last one has a "2" next to it which may indicate there are two of them?)
There is no trash icon on the screen and there doesn't appear to be ny way to delete them.
How do I delete them?

Emails keep re-appearing after deleting in icloud

I just updated my mobileme to icloud. When I delete my e-mails in my iphone or on my mac they keep re-appearing in my inboxes. Any idea how to make it stop?

Try restarting your Mac and your iPhone.
Hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home button down at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

Deleted emails keep re-appearing in inbox

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for