Deleted emails still found by spotlight

If I search with Spotlight on my Iphone using an (partial) email address or keyword, my entire mail history with such an address turns up on my Iphone including emails i have deleted. I even removed the mail account in whole, but the data still turns up. The emails (including entire back and forth conversations) don't even exist anymore on any mail server. Is there a way to delete this information permanently from my Iphone?

What your describing sounds lot like Nortons anti virus, but other do it to.
Multiple copies of the same email over and over are almost always anti virus incoming mail scanning. Turn off scanning and the problem goes away turn it back on and it resumes.
My guess is that your filter issues, and search problems are also related to this uniquitous and most ignored security tool that messes up far more than it should..
Deleting the index
I assume you mean the global-messages-db.sqlite. if you don't close Thunderbird and delete it now. Searches will be incomplete until it rebuilds and the time to do that will have a lot to do with how much mail there is and how busy the computer is.
Now create an exclusion in your anti virus program for the Thunderbird profile folders. My guess is it is trying to scan the files in your profile every time Thunderbird tries to open them and generally turning things into a tug of war, which Thunderbird looses as it just does not wait around if files are locked. It expects exclusive access to it's files immediately, not in 10 minutes when the anti virus has done it's thing. So things get added to the index but not removed. Mails don't move as the destination or source file is "in use" etc.

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Deleted emails still on my server - where do they go?

Sorry if this is an old topic; I read a buttload of threads about deleting and still have barely scratched the surface but am too impatient to read any more, and still haven't found my exact issue.
When I manually delete an email (which moves it to my trash) and then I either manually delete it from the trash or select "Erase Deleted Messages" from the Mailbox menu, the email appears to be totally gone from Mail but it is still on my ISP's mail server. I know this because my account is merged with a web-based email account from the same company, and they tell me they use the same server and mailbox for both accounts. When I do the deletes described above in Mail and then log onto the web-based account that uses the same server, the email is still there. So how can the email be totally deleted from Mail and yet still be on the server? Is it hiding in the Library somewhere? Will it eventually be removed from the server at the time specified in my prefs' "mailbox behaviors" under "erase deleted messages when"? If I didn't happen to have this back door for noticing that emails are still on the server, how would I know if deleted messages were really removed from the server? And if it is eventually removed from the server, will it still be hiding somewhere on my hard disk?
In case it matters: I have not created any mailboxes of my own in Mail. As far as I can tell I do have anything going on "on my mac", if I understand that term correctly as it is used in Mail.
BTW if I delete emails automatically by checking the advanced prefs checkbox for "remove copy from server after receiving a message", that does remove them from the server, unlike the manual delete procedures I described above.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail 2.0,7
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I see the "Remove now" button next to that checkbox--exactly
what messages does that button remove? The current message?
All messages? Just the ones that don't have a blue dot next to them?
The Remove Now button removes ALL messages available at the incoming mail server for the account.
To remove an individual message from the server, select the button at the bottom of the mailboxes drawer which has a gear icon.
At the bottom of the menu window that appear, select Get Info.
Select the POP via the Account selection - the account will be already selected if you are accessing a single account with the Mail.app.
Under the Messages On Server tab at Show Messages, All messages on POP server should be selected.
The window below will reveal all messages currently available on the server. You can select an individual message or multiple messages and then the Remove From Server button.

Deleted emails still shows in my inbox

My inbox still shows unread emails eventhough i have deleted it. And my inbox is empty and there are no emails.

Mylan,
If you aren't, you will need to change your phone to use the IMAP protocol, as Allan mentioned, to get what you want... If you are switching protocols from POP to IMAP, you might have to manually clean out your phone inbox, before it starts working.
However, the original problem I mentioned where the inbox is not updated EVEN using IMAP still exists and has only existed since the last iOS update... To restate: emails in the inbox on the phone still show up even after Outlook on the PC has removed them from the mail server. This is proven by looking at the mail server using the web interface to ensure the emails really are not in the in box.
However, I have noticed one thing. The email list on the phone will update as soon as a new email shows up in the inbox.
That is, there are emails in the inbox and the phone shows them. The emails are removed from the inbox using Outlook or web interface. The emails still show on the phone even though it says "updated now". Pulling down on the inbox making it refresh several times does nothing. Then a new email arrives in the inbox and the phone updates properly showing only the new email.
Additionally, going to the email account settings on the iPhone, turning some things off and on, and then going back to the inbox will also cause it to finally correctly refresh.
iPhone 5s iOS 7.0.4 using LTE and IMAP email protocol

Comcast deleted emails still apear on my ipad

how come deleted comcast emails still show up on my ipad? thanks

Nah,
Take the fact that Mail on Ipad can't show all my 600 folders. It actually shows more if I slide down, but it then bounces up ~5 folders as if the list was empty.
The developers didn't think anyone could have that many folders, and I'm not surprised if they haven't tried with +40.000 mails.
I made a softlink to my inbox-file. Now I do have the exact same content in my Inbox folder and my InboxLinkFolder. On my Ipad the InboxLinkFolder shows the correct content. But the Inbox folder shows emails that are deleted. The Inbox sync functionality must have some "too smart algorithm".
Onother way for me too prove the error could be to delete the account, then recreate the account. If the Inbox isn't the same for the new account then the Mail app has a bug. But I don't feel for doing that.
Other IMAP clients I've used recently: Thunderbird, K-9 (android), Alpine (linux). All those works with the inbox, but not the Mail-app.

Deleted email still appears

Does anyone have this intermittent problem? I delete email messages and a few days later they reappear in the iPad mail accounts. I don't see a "fix" in settings.,,

There is no fix for that in the mail settings. something "wonky" is going on with the mail app. Try these three generic troubeshooting tips. Try the third one first.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
Quit the mail app and other recent/open apps ..... Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Quit/close open apps by double tapping the home button and the task bar will appear with all of you recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner to close the apps. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.

Deleted bookmark still shows in spotlight

spotlight showing deleted bookmark(s) even after restart.... i checked 'help', dunno......?

found it....... i just deleted the folder in application support, duh.

Spotlight Search showing deleted emails

After loaded IOS6 - now when I do a "Search Iphone" using spotlight search I see emails from my Gmail account that were COMPLETLY deleted over 3 weeks ago (about 10 of them). This occurs even AFTER COMPLETLY cleaning out ALL Gmail folders (which they were when I downloaded the update)
How can I delete from this permanently search? Where could they be "hiding" on the Iphone..... Archive is shut of (and always has been). again ALL MY gmail folders are COMPLETLY empty.
Tried deleting Gmail account from phone and did a power down and reboot AFTER deleting Gmail account from phone too! yes... cleared history & cookies in Safari too.

I've been having the same problem with deleted emails showing up in Spotlight on iOS 6.0.2 (iPhone 5) so I did some experiments. (I'm using an IMAP account, not POP, and all my folders are on the server.)
There are actually two different problems (three if you count people who don't check all their account folders so the message is just tucked away in a place they didn't think to look).
The first problem occurs when you compose a message but don't hit Send, then hit Cancel, hit Save Draft, go back to the draft, and send it. Then you go to the Sent folder and delete the message and go to the Trash and delete it there. Now it doesn't show up anywhere in any account folder. But, if you go to Spotlight and search for something in the message, it will appear and you can bring it up and send it again. Mail is obviously squirreling away the draft in a place where it can't be deleted. Nothing short of a backup, reset, and restore will get rid of it.
The second problem occurs when you delete a message from a folder and then go the Trash and delete it there. If you immediately go to Spotlight, you'll see a "ghost" message: it's in Spotlight but if you try to bring it up, you'll find it doesn't really exist and Mail either shows a blank message or shows the account folders. You can get rid of these "ghosts": press the Home button to see the home screen and then double-click the Home button to show the running apps, then press and hold on the Mail icon and click the '-' badge to quit Mail. Then if you go back to Spotlight and search again, they're gone.
So there are two bugs: one serious and one that can be fixed by quitting Mail. And these are caused by real files being kept by Mail so using iErase or Zero Free Space to clear free space (by writing a huge file) has no effect. And, until Apple fixes the serious bug, never, ever, save a draft. (And if you do, you'll have to back up, reset, and restore.)

Deleted email accounts still searchable in Spotlight...

How can I permanently delete emails from deleted accounts that are still searchable in Spotlight?

hi,
does your trash is empty? spotlight is also looking to element in the trash. click on one of these files from the spotlight result; it will show the location of the files on your harddrive.

Stop deleted emails from showing up in Spotlight on iPhone 4s

Has anyone found a way to clear the cache yet from spotlight search on the iPhone? I know you can disable spotlight from bringing up the mail, but if it's turned back on the deleted emails show backup. As the phone is used by multiple people we want to be able to clear everything without doing a factory reset.

I have tried going into settings>general>spotlight search> and unchecking messages and mail so they dont show up in my spotlight search but this could presumably be amended and then back to square. Is there anyway text message can be permanently deleted from the phone?

How do I totally delete emails off of my ipad? I can still see parts of emails that I've deleted months ago.

I have an ipad version 7.1.2 . I delete emails using my ipad, but I'm still able to find them when searching by name. I can't open them, but they do pop up. How do I stop this and totally delete them?

There is no built in way of removing those from the cache in Spotlight. There may be third party apps that let you clear the cache, if it's that important to you and if you are willing to pay any cost associated with them.
Otherwise, the only way to totally get rid of them would be to restore your iPad as a totally new device and start over again. IMO, that's a bit drastic, but that's up to you.

Spotlight on Iphone 4 showing deleted emails

When I use spotlight for various searches, it shows email messages which I have already deleted. Although when you select them it takes you to the folder the message was originally stored in, but the message is not there.
The messages are not in any trash folder or deleted messages folder either on the iphone itself or on the server. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's a POP account or IMAP account.
There are also a number of messages which can be read - these seem to be ones that I have written or started to write, but not actually sent (could have been saved as a draft - but again nothing in the draft folders). You get taken to and can read the full email from being selected in spotlight, but is not stored anywhere in my mail folders.
I'm running the latest version of iOS 5.1.
Is there anyway to either reset the spotlight cache, or delete the cache to remove all these "deleted" emails from spotlight. I have searched many forums, but to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andy

I was able to contact a company that has a similar app as ierase. Now I understand the issue. These programs do overwrite "free space." But, WITHIN various apps, including email, there are files that basically point you to the data by saving a line or two (in the case of emails) in the application itself. This is called a "cache." These files live in the apps, not the free space. It's important because that's how computers know how to "remember" stuff for you so you can search, etc. BIG BUT: iPhone does not allow you to remove the cache or specific items from it. Android phones seem to have this setting. Your computer has this capability. But your iphone does not. The only way to remove information from the cache is to do a complete restore and not back up with iTunes. Puleese tell me if I'm wrong.
Think of it as a file cabinet. The top drawer has the operating system files that don't get touched unless there is an update of the operating system, e.g. to 5.1.1. The second drawer contains all your applications, with subfolders for each one. The subfolders contain a whole lotta flags (often called placeholders). These flags say: go to file drawer 3 and look up such and such. File drawer 3 i is your free space where all the stuff you do is stored. If you go to file drawer 2 and remove the flags, the system doesn't where to look for stuff in file drawer 3. You can add and remove files from drawer 3, or zero out the data, but the flags are still hanging around in drawer 2. You get my drift. I'm so right brained...
This is my basic understanding of why this problem is so widespread. It would be nice if Apple could allow cache editing.

Spotlight displaying deleted emails

Spotlight search displays deleted emails. All of them. Followed various suggestions incuding syncing with itunes, powering down and up again, but the messages keep appearing in spotlight results (titles only: if i tap on a deleted email, spotlight takes me to the correct mailbox, but the email is still deleted and no longer visible. How do I delete whatever data spotlight is picking up?

You can't. I opened an Expresslane AppleCare case with Apple about this a few days ago, and they confirmed that this is how it works (maybe just sometimes, who knows). It's the same on my iPad and (I think) on my wife's iPhone.
You need to restore the phone to get rid of it.
I explained how this is really broken... it gives search results that don't actually exist, and it's also a potential privacy invasion (anyone using Spotlight Search on your phone can see who you have emailed, the subject line, and some of the text). And, of course, it makes a real search difficult because actual results are buried in hundreds of fake results.
The support tech really had to twist his words to keep from admitting that this is a bug, but I did get him to agree that it is a broken system. However, there was nothing he could do about it.
It's a bug. Plain and simple, a bug. And it's been in existence for years and years, according to what I've read.

I delete emails on Centro, but they still take up tons of memory.

I'm running VersaMail 4.0.1.00 on my Sprint Centro, which carries 68.8MB of usable memory.
When I go to Info (Menu + I from the Home screen), it tells me that I have <1MB of memory left, primarily because the Email application takes up 38,936K. (There are actually two Email categories listed - with sizes 16K and 38,936K respectively. They both show Version 4.0.1.00, and as for the number of records, it's "N/A" and 831 respectively.)
I want to get rid of as much of that 38,936K as possible.
When I go in the Email application, I delete every possible email, but even after I empty trash it tells me that there remain 47 messages in Trash (marked with an asterisk, for some reason).
The email is connected to my company's Microsoft Exchange Server. I'd be willing to delete the entire application, but the Email application isn't visible when I go to Delete (Menu + D from the Home screen). In fact, even turning on the Centro now results in the error message "The free data storage space on the device is low. Delete applications or data."
Okay, this is beyond weird and potentially relevant: as I'm typing this very message, the size and records of the aforementioned Email application changed to 29,468K and 674 records, seemingly spontaneously.
I keep thousands of emails on my company's Microsoft Exchange Server, but I religiously delete emails from the Centro Email application, never having more than 10 or so on there at a time, and none of those carrying applications or anything that would take up lots of memory.
Even now, I can't understand why the Email application lists all those records and all that memory being used. If you can tell me how to free up that memory, I'd certainly appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Post relates to: Centro (Sprint)

When you are deleting mail, are you also having those messages also deleed from the server? Even if they are in an all mail file and not in your in box, the versa mail still can see them. So, after you delete them, the server is sendin the mail right back to you. You are then stuck in a paradox. I delete, but, I didn't... If you have a seperate file that you can forward them to, a 'new' account. That might help.
Post relates to: Treo 700p (Sprint)

I have deleted hundreds of pictures, I've deleted apps, deleted emails and texts, and I've turned off and deleted backups of apps on icloud and it is still telling me that there is not enough icloud storage available for my phone to be back

I have deleted hundreds of pictures, I've deleted apps, deleted emails and texts, and I've turned off and deleted backups of apps on icloud and it is still telling me that there is not enough icloud storage available for my phone to be backed up. I am supposed to do this before I go to the Apple store today to get my phone fixed. Can someone please help me? I have done almost everything.

This article explains ways to reduce your iCloud storage: Managing your iCloud storage. In addition to what's mentioned in the article, if you have lots of photos and videos attached to your text messages, these are all included in your iCloud backup and deleting them can sometimes significantly reduce the size of your backup.
If worse comes to worse, back up your phone to your computer rather than iCloud. To do this, connect it to your computer, open iTunes and go to File>Devices>Back Up and to File>Devices>Transfer Purchases. This can be used to restore your data when you get your phone back. (In fact, it's faster because you don't have to download the data from iCloud.)

I not so recently changed my email adress I associated with my Apple ID and my iCloud ID. My old email still shows up for iCloud, and won't let me change it to my new email. When I try to delete it and replace it with the proper email, it wants my passwor

I not so recently changed my email adress I associated with my Apple ID and my iCloud ID. My old email still shows up for iCloud, and won't let me change it to my new email. When I try to delete it and replace it with the proper email, it wants my password, which it won't accept because it's an invalid username.

I had this same issue and got it resolved very simply when I contacted Apple SUpport
Go to https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/ and sign into your infomation
> Go to Manage apple id and primary email address
> Change it to the old apple id that your device is asking for
> Save changes
> Go to Settings > iCloud and sign out of the infomation
> Go back to https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
> Change it back to the correct apple id
> Go to the email address adn reverify the apple id
> Sign back into iCloud on your device
> Smile
Article to back up my statement http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5223

Deleted emails still found by spotlight

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