Mail content automatically deletes

For the past month the content of the emails in my inbox disappears after about two weeks. The email title and recipient still looks unchanged. When I try to delete the email the title just turns lighter in color. Can anyone help?

Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
There is no option in Mail to account for this, as described. Do you access this IMAP account from more than one computer or device? Do you have any Rules in operation?
Ernie

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If you have a gmail IMAP mail account, you need to understand tht you are remotely viewing the server folders, so basically the folders you see in Thunderbird are the same folders you see when you use webmail - (logon to google account via browser).
If you want to delete emails off the server, but keep those specific emails accessible in Thunderbird, then you need to move/copy them from the Thunderbird IMAP gmail mail account and store them in Local Folders account in suitably created folders before you delete them from the IMAP mail account.

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Im using iMap from a local ISP. There should be noquota on amount of mail.
I cant seem to find if there is a option for this....
Any ideas?? Thanks!

Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
There is no option in Mail to account for this, as described. Do you access this IMAP account from more than one computer or device? Do you have any Rules in operation?
Ernie

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When I delete something on Mac Mail it automatically is deleted on the Yahoo server. Why and how can I stop this happening and leave it on the server?

I believe that that is how IMAP accounts are designed to work, if you delete an email from a computer or device then it will be deleted from the server. If possible you could try setting up the account as a POP account in the Mail program and you should then get a 'remove copy from server' tickbox (which will need to be unticked) on the account's Advanced tab in Mail > Preferences.
I've asked for this post to be moved to the Mountain Lion forum, this is the iPad forum.

My old mail is automatically deleted. How do I change this?

After I read my mail and it is sitting in my mailbox, it is deleted. How do I change this so mail stays in my account until I choose to delete it?

This is an AOL issue/problem that comes with accessing an AOL account as an IMAP with an email client such as Mail instead of via the AOL program.
What is an Outlook account? Is this the exchange server account that you are accessing as an exchange account with Mail?
Your options are as follows:
(1) Transfer all received messages to a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox (which is stored locally on the hard drive and not associated with any account). This process saves the transferred messages locally on the hard drive and removes the messages from the server at the same time. Do so within 5 days so that read messages are not lost due to AOL purging the server of these messages. With the AOL program, there is a new mail and old mail designation which is not available when accessing the account as an IMAP account with Mail or with any email client such as Mail or Entourage.
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(2) Use another email account besides an AOL account to have these messages sent or forwarded to.

Please help! I have an I-Pad and a mini I-Pad. Both contain the same information. If I delete from one the info or e-mail is automatically deleted from the other. How can these two I-Pads be made separate entities so I can erase everythiing on only 1

I Hope someone can help me! I have an I-Pad and a mini I- Pad.
Both have identical content, e-mail , etc. How can I or what can be done to make them 2 separate I -Pads so that I can erase the content from one but not the other.
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Has anyone else experienced e-mail showing up then before you can select it deletes?
This has been happening everyday now, since the upgrade.

What type of account - POP or IMAP?
And are you also accessing the account with an email client on your computer? If so and the account can be accessed as a POP or IMAP account, are you accessing the account as the same type with each email client used to access the account - if IMAP with the email client on your computer, you are accessing the account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's Mail client?

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Are you sure it's Mail that's doing this? It could be on the other end (the server end).
Mac Mail has a preference for "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message", but there's no choice for 2 weeks, so I doubt that's it.

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By using POP3, mail is automatically deleted from the server once downloaded by the client without further user intervention (granted, not immediately due to BTYahoos recent non-standard implementation of the POP3 protocol). By contrast, the whole point of IMAP is that mail is left on the server to be available to multiple devices and requires user intervention to delete. Why would a system which is designed to be used for leaving mail on a server be recommmended to someone who wished it to be deleted? If you wish to be pedantic, I agree the OP didn't ask for mail to be automatically deleted, but then nor did he specify immediate deletion either. I interpreted the request as the former, you the latter. Perhaps if we understood the underlying reason why he wished the mail to be deleted in the first place it would help in providing a solution.
There seems to be a recurring theme on this forum to promote IMAP as a universal panacea to overcome all mail problems which is diverting attention away from fixing BTYahoo's broken POP3 servers which have to my knowledge at least 4 problems. Two are deliberate by BTYahoo, lack of secure login and moving read items to the Trash folder temporarily before deletion. Two are faults which they seem either unable or reluctant to fix, intermittant authentication problems and inabilty to download even modest sized attachments on a slow connection.
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Mail is automatically deleting messages from my Inbox automatically when they reach an age of about 30 days, any ideas? I've got a workaround in place right now, rule that forwards messages to a yahoo account once they reach 27 days, but I'd like to be able to just leave them on my machine for those times I need to reference an email and the internet isn't available.
AFAIK there is NOT an option/preference for automatically deleting Inbox messages, that was my first thought but when I dug around I couldn't find it anywhere. Am I missing something obvious?
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Hi,
would be interesting to trace this thread because I have a similar (if not the same) problem.
I used to use IMAP as account type for my main email account but I noticed, too, spontaneously disappearing mails.
I checked directly on the mail server and they are still there. But in Mail (version 2.0.7 (746.2/746.3) from OS X 10.4.5) I couldn't find these mails anywhere. Not in the Inbox, nor in Spam, Trash or any other local or remote folder. And there is no rule that would have affected these mails.
Meanwhile I switched to using POP3 with that email account and got the missing messages back (visible in Mail's Inbox). But I'd really like to find and solve the problem and use IMAP again.
As far as the 30 days are concerned the original poster mentioned I can't confirm this. Sometimes I think yes, there's a certain amount of time after which the mails disappear but then again it seems to be different all the time. Sometime a mail disappeared after just one day (it's still on the mail server) in Mail and sometimes mails disappeared after app. two months.
Is there any known issue? I have a lot of rules for mailing lists that just move mails into a folder -- but the missing mails can't be found in this folder, neither.
What would be necessary to reinstall Mail from scratch? Will I loose all my mails then?
Thanks in advance & greetings from Germany,
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Mails forwarded from yahoo account automatically deleted by icloud mail.

Recently I have completely switched over to iCloud mail for sending and receiving all mails. There were two problems that I found. These are as follows:
1. I am forwarding all the mails from my gmail, ymail and outlook.com account to iCloud.com account. But some of the messages don't reach (or probably are automatically deleted from) my iCloud mailbox. I have checked the junk email folder also. They are not there. Some of these emails like the promotional mails I have subscribed to and my Internet bill are not really spam. Still somehow they don't get into my iCloud mailbox despite my yahoo account forwarding them. Proof that the yahoo account is forwarding them is that all those emails were deleted from my yahoo account automatically after being forwarded.
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IMAP mail accounts have a remote view of the emails on the server.
You 'subscribe' to see the contents of server folders.
Only the headers are downloaded and when you select an email the folder is copied to a temp cache to facilitate quicker access to that folder.
These emails are not stored on your computer.
If you choose to 'synchronize' folders, then a copy of the folder is downloaded to your thunderbird Profile folder.
This means you can view those emails when in offline mode. These emails are on your computer, BUT as these folders are set to synchronize, it means that folder can get updated by the server, if emails are removed off the server and you synch, you will see all of those emails disappear from Thunderbird to synch and match the server.
So the best method is to synchronize the folder to get emails onto your computer, then go into 'offline' mode so that Thunderbird cannot connect with server.
Then move those emails into suitable folders in Local Folders.
The 'Local Folder' folders will be stored on your computer and will not be efected by the IMAP mail account even when you later select to remove it.
You can use this addon to create a backup of Local Folder folders and emails and also synchronised folders in offline mode.
* https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
Right click on folder in Local Folders (or a synchronized folder in offline mode)
select 'Importexporttool'
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Hi Dan,
Thanks for the speedy reply. I do understand the difference between smart mailboxes and real folders, and I suppose either could work for my application. What I'm looking for is an add-on like Johan Carlsson's Get Smart Folder Contents Automator add-on (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/getsmartfoldercontents.html) that works instead with Smart Mailboxes.
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