Hot to remove mailbox "deleted messages"

either i am a bit cockoo this morning or the folder/ mailbox "delted messages" appeared new. as there is already a trash i don't quite understand what this folder is for and how to get rid of it.

i tried to delete this mailbox but i can't. error message (translated): imap DELETE failed

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How do I make Mail remove junk/deleted messages from the server? The only option tht works for me now is the "Remove from server" button at Account Info > Messages on server. What am I doing wrong?

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Error message :mail unable to remove deleted messages in the mailbox

Hi,
I am frequently getting this error message: Mail was unable to remove the deleted messages in the mailbox (my email address) on server "mail.mac.com".
The server error encountered was: Error MFMessageErrorDomain 1028
Sometimes the error message says that time has logged out. The thing is, most of the time, even though I get the error message, the deleted messages are being removed. Once or twice, I had to delete a couple of messages a few times. I've been getting the error message several times a day for the last couple of days.
If anyone can enlighten me about why this happens, I would appreciate it.
Thanks

Well guys, all of you who are having this problem, it appears as if no one in the know is interested in giving any insight into why this happens. As of now, I haven't gotten the error message for a couple of days, so maybe it's something which resolved itself, something with the server. I would still like to know why this happens, and I wish those of you who still are having the problem could get some answers. It it's possible, go to an Apple Retail store, and see if you can talk to a genius about this issue.

Why can't I delete messages?

I have 2 accounts linked to Mail, my school account and an AOL account. The school one functions fine, but the AOL one only receives mail well. It won't send or delete. When I try to delete a message in the AOL inbox, I get this message:
The message “test” could not be moved to the mailbox “Deleted Messages — AOL”
The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: UID COPY failed Deleted Messages: no such mailbox.
I've already tried removing the AOL account completely from the program and putting it back. The problem was there before and after. I'm capable of sending the AOL messages to the Trash folder on the school account, but this is a real pain.

Hi stgilman101!
Another link that you may find helpful:Known MAC Leopard Issues
There is also a new version of the AOL software, that has been released in BETA, which you can learn about here AOL Desktop for Mac Beta 5 Now Available.
More info and link to download here AOL Desktop For Mac (BETA).
ali b

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I have an issue where if I delete an email on my iPhone and then log in to .Mac mail, I still see the message there. Further inspection shows that the message is in the .Mac trash AND in the inbox - almost like the message was copied rather than moved. Not sure how to get the sync to finally take effect. I think if I check mail via mail.app it will force the sync. Also, if I delete one of the many messages in the .mac inbox, it will suddenly delete all the messages that should have already been deleted.
Anybody else see this? I have a buddy who is also able to reproduce this "bug".

Make sure the settings in your iphone and on your computer match for where deleted messages go. On the iphone, go to settings>mail>yourdotmacaccount, tap advanced, and it should show you that deleted messages are being put in "Deleted Messages". On your mac, if you don't have a mailbox that says "Deleted Messages" you're fine, because that means that you've told it (or it automatically chose it) that the mailbox "Deleted Messages" is your Trash. On the computer it shows just "Trash" for whatever mailbox is chosen for deleted messages.

In Mail, how to reinstall a «Deleted message» folder trashed by error ?

Hi,
From Mail's sidebar, I deleted a «Deleted Message» folder that seemed to be a duplicate of the «Trash» folder (Corbeille in French). I did that to fast ... and I realize that all my deleted messages dissapeared. I never really understyood these duplicated «Trash» and «Deleted Message» folders, so I should have paid more attention ... gurlp !
I then searched my hard disk to see where my actual «Deleted messages» folder was nested. That folder was backed up in the cloud with CrashPlan, so I restored it to my desktop. It was nested here:
Users/MyUserName/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Deleted Messages (Vidéotron)
I checked to be sure that the I had found the good folder. I then closed Mail. I moved the actual «Deleted messages» folder to the trash and replaced it with the one I restored from CrashPlan.
When I launched Mail while the restaored folder contained ± 4000 messages, Mail only displays 72.
Somebody has a clue ?
Regards.
Robert Lespérance

The «Deleted Messages (Vidéotron).mbox» original folder that contains ±4000 deleted messages is shown in this picture (click here). As you see the messages are distributed in many folders and sub-folders.
I want to import thoses messages back in Mail ... and as I said, it doesn't work. Is there somebody out there that understands my problem ?

Mail won't delete messages

Hello. Here's an out-of-the-blue problem I started having this weekend. The Mail ap on my MacBook suddenly stopped allowing me to delete messages. When I try to delete a message I am given this error message:
The destination mailbox “Deleted Messages (Mac.com) — On My Mac” does not allow messages to be moved to it.
I am able to delete messages by using Safari to log-in to .mac and viewing/deleting messages via the browser.
Any thoughts on how to fix this problem in the Mail ap?
Thanks!

Hello kristy:
You could do the "standard" troubleshooting things:
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Trash the preference file - com.apple.mail.plist (this will trash ALL of your preferences, so do not delete it from the trash)
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My mail cannot delete message

so i just got my macbook and im having a bit of trouble. when i go to mail and try to delete a message i get this exact message The message “YouTube Message: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 123k” could not be moved to the mailbox “Deleted Messages — AOL” "The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: UID COPY failed Deleted Messages: no such mailbox." i dont know why. im going to the genius bar soon, maybe they can help. please respond

Hi snipereye!
Is this KB Article Mac OS X 10.5, Mail: Unable to delete messages in AOL-based mail account helpful?
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Previously deleted messages are re-downloaded, not removed from server??

I have a POP email account that I access from my iMac using Mail. I regularly delete mail from my inbox in Mail, so there are only a few hundred messages in the inbox. But the other day I logged onto my mail account via the web and discovered thousands of my previously deleted messages still in my inbox on the server. I opened Mail Preferences and discovered that the checkbox "Remove mail from Server ... when I move it from my inbox" was not checked, so I checked that box. However, I figured that would only cause future messages that are removed form my inbox to be removed from the server, but would not do anything about the thousands of previously deleted messages that were still on the server. So I also clicked the button labeled "Remove Now". I figured that would cause Mail to tell the server to remove all the old messages on the server that had previously been removed from the local Mail inbox.
The next day I discovered that thousands of old messages I had already deleted (many of them long ago) had mysteriously reappeared in my Mail inbox. And of course, checking the account via the web, I discovered they were still on the server too. What did I do wrong? I thought Mail would tell the server to delete all those old messages. Instead it seems to have told the server to download them all to my Mail inbox again, the exact opposite of what I intended. I don't know if this is a disconnect between the Mac Mail client and the mail server, or if I misunderstood the purpose of these options in the Mail preferences dialog.

Hello,
I have never tried this exact action, but I think the Remove Now will not do much, with When Moved from the Inbox. This would require the action of removing the message, after this setting has been changed. I don't think it would remove any previously moved from the Inbox, because no check to correlate the current contents of Inbox to a POP account.
Does this make sense, to you?
However, there would appear to be some corruption in the file to prevent duplicate downloads, or messages previously downloaded.
In Mail 2.x, Apple introduced a way to look a the server, of even POP accounts. To do this, control-click on any inbox or any mailbox, and choose Get Info. Once the dialogue window is presented, and if you have more than one account, choose the account, and you can not observe the server contents, but also choose and delete individual messages.
Keep us posted about future behavior.
Ernie

Mailbox Behaviors - Deleting Messages

This is a simple question. And I'm fairly confident that I already have the answer, but I just wanted some clarification.
Do the options in the Mailbox Behaviors section of the Accounts tab refer to messages (and attachments) stored locally on my hard drive or on the email server? I have two POP accounts that are both set up in the Advanced section of the Accounts tab to not remove copies of messages from the email server. If the the options in the Mailbox Behaviors section do also apply to my messages stored on my email servers, then do those "delete messages after..." options override the option to not remove copies from the server? For my IMAP account, I have selected all options to store copies of messages on the email server and opted to download copies of all received messages and attachments for offline viewing. Again, do the Mailbox Behaviors options to delete old messages apply only to those stored locally on my internal hard drive or do they apply to the server or both?
I realize it sounds like I'm just splitting hairs, but I want to make sure that I'm deleting copies of messages from my hard drive but not from the vast reaches of my email server account storage spaces.

The options available under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for a POP type account are for the account's Sent, Trash and Junk mailboxes/messages which are stored locally on the hard drive. You can't store Sent, Trash or Junk messages on the server for a POP type account with any email client such as the Mail.app.
The options available under the Advanced tab for the account preferences for "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message:" refer to incoming messages or the incoming mail server for the account only.
The options available under the Mailbox Behaviors tab and the Advanced tab for a POP type account are not related and have no effect on the other.
If you have chosen to store deleted messages on the server for an IMAP type account, the options for "Permanently erase deleted messages when" apply to the server. If deleted messages are stored locally on the hard drive, the options do not apply to the server since messages marked for deletion are stored on the hard drive.

Delete Mailbox in Messaging on E63??

I used Nokia Messaging to setup my Gmail account on my E63 and now I want to remove the Gmail from my phone because I was never able to get my mail to send. I go to Messaging (either from my home screen or from Menu, Communic, Messaging) and see the following folders/icons: New Message, Inbox, My Folders, Gmail (mailbox I would like to delete), Drafts, Sent, Outbox, Reports. I click on Gmail and hit Options, expecting to see a "Remove" or "Delete" option but there is none.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this mailbox?? I think I have checked every option on the phone but I must be missing something.
Meanwhile, I have successfully (I am able to send and receive) set up another one of my email addresses (again using Nokia Messaging - through their website on my PC) and this account is accessed when I push the email button on the phone BUT when I scroll up to the messaging folder on my home screen, it opens the Messaging Folder and I see the Gmail mailbox there and not my other email account. I also deleted the Gmail account from the Nokia Messaging website on my PC.
How do I get my new email account to show up in the Messaging area and get the Gmail mailbox out of there??
Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I go to Messaging (either from my home screen or from Menu, Communic, Messaging) and see the following folders/icons: New Message, Inbox, My Folders, Gmail (mailbox I would like to delete), Drafts, Sent, Outbox, Reports. I click on Gmail and hit Options, expecting to see a "Remove" or "Delete" option but there is none.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this mailbox?? I think I have checked every option on the phone but I must be missing something.
In this menu youre describing, press options -> settings -> email -> here you see your configured mailboxes. Press options in this menu to remove the one you like to get rid of.
edit:this is how it works on many other s60 3rd devices. I havent used a E63 but i suppose it's the same.
-K
Message Edited by kentsu on 09-Dec-2009 07:12 AM

Mail deleting messages daily instead of using Mailbox Behavior to keep on server for 1 Month

I have a Mailbox Behavior for Trash set to:
Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox
Store deleted message on the server
Permanently erase messages when: One month old.
But it is not respecting the latter. The messages are deleted daily. I think this is a recent (Mavericks) gift.
Anyone having the same problem? Any solutions out there?
Thanks.

POP accounts will only give you control to server settings at the inbox. If you never remove it from the server, it will download all messages when you log into your account from another computer. This could be a problem with thousands of messages left on a server.
For IMAP, your inbox will atuomatically sync to the IMAP inbox, so what you do in Mail or Webmail will reflect the change at the other.
For the other mailboxes, storing messages on the server in Mail settings basically syncs the IMAP and local mailboxes like the inbox does. So, if you trash a sent message in Mail, it will trash it at the IMAP site.
If they are left in those mailboxes, then the server setting in Mail will control how long the remain in those mailboxes unless you move them or delete them manually.
If not set to store on the server, the local mailbox will not sync with the IMAP. So, deleting a sent message from the local sent mailbox will not delete the sent message in the IMAP sent mailbox.
Some accounts like GMail have settings at their site that will let you further control how mail is handled.
You can make settings to archive messages automatically when deleted from the inbox or sent folder. I believe that is the default setting in GMail. That would be what you want to save all your mail. That would keep your inbox and sent mailboxes clean. Look at your IMAP site to see what settings you can make there.
In GMail, the "all mail" is just a reflection of all messages kept and archived. You have no settings control of this mailbox on your mac in Mail. But, you can view the "all mail" under the IMAP folder in Mail.
You can still set up a smart mailbox on your mac in mail to show the messages in the "all mail" mailbox that are greater than a year old. Only those would show up in that smart mailbox and you can just select all and delete without having to visually look at all the messages in the IMAP "all mail".

When I try to delete an email, I get a message which says "The message could not be moved to the mailbox trash". How can I delete messages?

When I try to delete an email, I get a message whih says "The message connot be sent to the mailbox Trash. How can I delet messages?

Try going into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select the account on the right-hand side of that screen, select Account, then Advanced, Deleted Mailbox, and under On The Server tap the 'Trash' folder (or whatever it is called by yor provider) so that it gets a tick against it - then come out of that series of popups by tapping on the relevant buttons at the top of them and then see if you can delete emails

'The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash' message when deleting

Hello,
I have a 3G and after upgrading to iOS4, whenever I delete messages from an Exchange mailbox on my iPhone, I get the message 'Unable to Move Message - The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash'. Odd part is that the message IS moved to Trash. I also have a gmail account setup and that one works just fine. Really more of an annoyance than an issue, but it's growing more annoying by the minute. Any ideas?
Thanks

Update - I deleted/re-added my account. Same issue. Also, no my Exchange calendar won't sync. Issue appears to be on the Exchange server. I see the following errors in my iPhone log:
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Thu Jun 24 08:22:45 unknown dataaccessd[1690] <Warning>: EAS|ASFolderItemsSyncTask failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The operation couldnt be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1001.)"
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Thu Jun 24 08:23:18 unknown dataaccessd[1690] <Warning>: EAS|ASFolderItemsSyncTask failed: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The operation couldnt be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1001.)"
Thu Jun 24 08:23:18 unknown dataaccessd[1690] <Warning>: EAS|Folder with id 046953b97fad3041abac33b9777784fc-da284b and title Contacts has failed to sync 5 time(s) in a row
Thu Jun 24 08:23:23 unknown CommCenter[32] <Notice>: Client [com.apple.persistentconnection[dataaccessd,1690]] is telling PDP context 0 to go active.
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The Imap command UID copy (to deleted messages) failed for the mailbox "bulk mail" with server error UID copy mailbox in use. PLease try again later

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