Deleted mail keeps downloading -

I keep getting 5000+ emails that have already being deleted back in my incoming, new mail folder...HELP

Does your email provider offer a Webmail interface (ie, Gmail or Apple's iCloud)? If so then try accessing that and deleting the messages there. In addition, go to the Accounts section of the Mail preferences and in the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab for the account with this problem (which may be all of them) uncheck the option to "Store deleted messages on the server" and also set the time frame for when to permanently erase deleted messages to a shorter one (e.g., a day instead of the default "month" setting).

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Deleted Mail keeps returning to INBOX - please advise!

Please help me. I am trying to clean out my inbox because it has gotten out of control, I have over 4000 messages and I am trying to delete them in bulk.
This is what I have been doing: I highlight messages then select delete. Then, I go to the mailbox menu and select permanently delete messages - i have been doing this periodically throughout the entire process.
Then, at some point Mail quits unexpectedly. When I reopen the application ALL of the messages that I thought I had deleted are back!!
Any advice would be most appreciated.

Assuming this is a POP account and you can somehow manage to do the following without Mail crashing (you may take Mail offline to avoid new mail being downloaded while you try to fix the problem), try this:
1. Create a custom “On My Mac” mailbox (Mailbox > New Mailbox).
2. Instead of deleting the messages you don’t want to keep, move the messages you do want from Inbox to this newly created mailbox. Make sure that they are transferred correctly and you don’t miss anything.
3. Quit Mail.
4. In the Finder, go to the ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/ account folder.
5. Locate INBOX.mbox and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted after fixing the problem).
6. Open Mail. A new (empty) INBOX.mbox will automatically be created within the account folder.
7. Move the messages in the “On My Mac” mailbox back to Inbox if that’s where you want them to be.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

Mail Keeps Downloading the Same Emails

As of this morning, Mail (v4.5) keeps downloading the same emails over and over. I've got my delete setting to delete after one week (not immediately after download), but this has never been an issue before. In fact, I have multiple email accounts that access the same mail server, but only this one account is having this issue. I've gone in to my mailbox via Mail2Web and deleted all the messages in case it was some kind of corrupt email causing the issue. But as new emails come in, the problem reappears--the new emails are downloaded over and over. This is with a POP account.
I would think it'd be a server issue, not a Mail issue, but none of my other accounts that access the same mail server are affected. Any suggestions?

Ok, found a solution, as outlined by Satchmo here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2358024

Mail keeps downloading the same message severytime iit logs into the server

Hi,
I have several acocunts all retrieving mail from various servers.
Yesterday changed a configuration from one server to stop automatically forwarding e-mail to another server and, instead, just have mail retrieve the messages directly from that box.
Now, for some inexplicable reason, mail keeps retriving the same messages stored on each server everytime it logs in. I know have up to 4 - 6 copies of some messages in both mail boxes for these two servers. I have re-examined all my settings and they are as they should be.
I fanally trashed all old mail on the servers (there was over 1500 from the past week on one which was continuosly being downloaded.)
What could possible be causing it? How do I fix it?
Thanks.
G5 1.6Gz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Never mind about the Junk Folder missing. I found out about that.
Still receiving the duplicate e-mails though.
Thanks for your help. Please read comments below.
Hi Matthew.
For POP accounts, Mail uses a file within the
account
folder to keep track of which messages have
already
been downloaded. That file may have become corrupt
or
the data stored there may have become invalid for
some reason.
You may try deleting that file so that Mail
creates
it anew, but that will also cause Mail to treat
everything still on the server as if new
and
try to download it again:
1. Quit Mail.
2. In the Finder, go to the
~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/
account folder.
3. Locate one or two files named
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded and move them
to
the Trash. Mail 1.x used
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded
to keep track of which messages had already been
downloaded. Mail 2.x uses
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 for the same
purpose.
Alternatively, you may try clicking Remove
now
in Preferences > Accounts > Advanced, which
should both remove from the server the messages
that
Mail thinks have already been downloaded and reset
MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded.
I tried both of these messages. No luck. I finally
jsut set one of the accounts to immediately delete
the message once it has retrieved it from the server,
though that takes away a certain piece of mind that
it exists in two places at least for a weel.
Anyway. Niw my Junk mail folder has disappeared. I
had it set to train and this morning when I opened
mai it asked if I wanted it to change to automatic.
I said yes and went about looking at new mails.
There qere a lot of junk mail not beeing tagged as I
began to use command-shift-j to mark this messages,
the first few turned brown as they should. The, all
of a sudden, messages started disappearing. When I
looked for the Junk Mail folder on the left, it was
gone! I still have no idea where it is. I spent the
afternoon backing up an d running Disk Warrior. But
Junk didn't return. Any clues? (Possibly this
should be a new thread)
BTW, what are your Preferences > Accounts >
Advanced > Remove copy from server settings?
I had them set to be removed after a week. No I have
one removing them as they are retrieved. This
computer's been running like that for 3 years. Not
sure gremlin has gotten into the works but it's
frustrating as ****.
Note: For those not familiarized with
the
~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home
folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library
folder
within the user’s home folder.

Deleted songs keep downloading when syncing iPhone.

I download the free iTunes songs and listen to them on the way to work. If I don't like them, I delete them after I've synced my phone at home. I've never had a problem until last week. Now the songs keep downloading again when I sync my phone. I know I can choose to not sync them to the phone, and have done that for now. It's driving me crazy not being able to delete them for good though. Any suggestions?

Problem solved on another discussion.
Re: Deleted Song Keeps Reappearing!
Nov 7, 2011 1:03 PM (in response to Taffam)
I think I found a solution - at least it worked for me for now.
I unchecked the song in iTunes and deleted it off the iPhone and off itunes at the same time, whilst being disconnected. With the next sync, the song did not come back. The spell is broken!
hope it works for you too.
Stefan.

Deleted mail keeps reloading in my Drafts folder.

Since upgrading to Mavericks, my email keeps putting old deleted messages (usually the same 5 messages) in my Drafts folder. I delete them there, but they just keep coming back. Anyone know how to fix this?
I am running Mavericks on my MacBook Pro with Mail 7.3.

Deleted mail can reappear if the folder has not been compacted frequently.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders
'' If you don't compact your folders regularly, performance can slow to a crawl, you can't store new messages anymore, start losing parts of messages or have deleted messages resurrected.''
Suggest you move all good emails out of Inbox to other suitable folders for organising.
Then delete all emails you do not want.
then right click on Inbox and select 'compact'.
Then empty the Deleted folder.
Also Empty and compact the Junk folder.

My deleted mail keeps returning to my in box, even if I delete my trash.

I have my inbox at the minimum amount of mail in settings. also to remove my trash after one day. Mail keeps coming back to my inbox even though I delete it manually from trash. drives me crazy.

I didn't mention this is on an ipad2.

Deleted mail keeps reappearing in my in box, apparentlt randomly

I am frequently receiving advice I have new mail only to find the new mail is in fact mail dating back some days or weeks. This may be 1 mail or multiple mails, perhaps up to 30 and is a real nuisance, Any advice most welcome, thanks. This only affecting Thunderbird, not Bell / Sympatico.

Deleted mail can reappear if the folder has not been compacted frequently.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders
'' If you don't compact your folders regularly, performance can slow to a crawl, you can't store new messages anymore, start losing parts of messages or have deleted messages resurrected.''
Suggest you move all good emails out of Inbox to other suitable folders for organising.
Then delete all emails you do not want.
then right click on Inbox and select 'compact'.
Then empty the Deleted folder.
Also Empty and compact the Junk folder.

Deleted mail keeps coming back in to mail

Using mail on Imac, Laptop, ipad and iphone.
When I move a message to a folder on the imac it keeps coming back in to the mail account. It appears to work OK on the laptop when I move a message. All the settings appear to be the same. Any idea what is going on?
Thanks

An update to my previous questions. This problem I think started after Maverick was installed. Also if I just try to delete a message it will pop back in. Appreciate someone telling me what is going on?
Thanks

TS3276 Deleted mail keeps returning

I have recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. In MAIL Gmail All Mail I keep deleting and removing from Trash but the messages keep returning over and over again.

try rebuilding your mailbox. it may just be that your local storage has gotten out of whack with the online storage; rebuilding should fix that.

Deleted mail keeps returning

when I delete messages in mail they keep coming back 3 or 4 times.I have rebuild mailboxes , but that doesn't help.
Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Check to see if you have the option "Store deleted messages on the server" enabled. You can find this under Preferences->Accounts->Mailbox Behaviors. I was having the same issue with emails popping back up after I had deleted them. Unchecking this checkbox resolved the issue. For some reason if the deleted message is being stored server side, the flag isn't being thrown that the message was deleted. As a result, the server thinks it's still valid email and continues to serve it to you. I still think this is a problem on Apple's end, because this behavior was occurring across all of my emails accounts: iCloud, GMail and private servers. So it's not the provider, it's the way Apple Mail does things.

Deleted mail keeps on staying in account

I keep on deleting emails and emptying the bin but it stays in there! what can I do?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
In Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6.8, deleted emails are erased within the Mail program, not the Trash Bin.
Mail, Mailbox, Erase Deleted Items, In All Accounts...
NOT ILLUSTRATED ABOVE -- You can also select email accounts individually, and erase deleted items, if you have more than one account.

Deleted mail keeps returning gmail

Deleted email in Gmail keep returning after I delete them from my junk mail. I'm running Mail Version 7.3 (1878.6) and OS X 10.9.4.
I've seen older posts on the Apple Community pages outlining the same problems. I've tried the various solutions: CMD X (cut), delete/reinstall Gmail, delete originals from Gmail account, etc. None of this works, and the now the list of old/deleted emails is growing by the week.
Anyone got any ideas? And why did Apple never address this problem in any of its updates?

See the comment by Stephen Adams in this thread, and by William Lloyd in this thread.

TS3276 Why does Deleted mail keep returning?

why does deleted email messages keep returning?

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Deleted Mail keeps reappearing?

This is probably going to be the worst question as I have no knowledge of computers whatsoever
But I just set up my hotmail account on my new Macbook Pro and every time I delete an email, it reappears whenever I go out of the app or hit "Inbox"
Any ideas how to fix it? And I only have the one email account

Does it happen to every message you try to delete or only to some of them? What type of mail account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)?
You may be able to get rid of those messages in Mail doing Edit > Cut (⌘X) (for best results do it with one message or just a few at a time), but you should remove them from the server first if they’re still there.
I am not using Apple's Junk Mail Filter.
Does that mean you’re using something else instead, i.e. do you have any Mail plug-ins?

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