Mail trying to download an email message already deleted from the server

And it won't download anything else. How do I get the program to recognize that this message has already been deleted?

Try the following.
With the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded.
Delete the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file and empty the Trash.
Launch Mail and if successful, any previously downloaded messages that remain on the server will be downloaded again along with any new messages available at the server that have not been downloaded.

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I am unable to see any POP3 or IMAP tab when I set up an account in my iphone 4S. Hence by default all my email accounts become IMAP and the messages are deleted from the server when I delete them from the iphone.

I am unable to see any POP3 or IMAP tab when I set up an account in my iphone 4S. Hence by default all my email accounts become IMAP and the messages are deleted from the server when I delete them from the iphone.

ok sorry everyone but i solved it myself but the solution is so nuts i've posted it here to help others who have the same problem.
to setup a comcast imap account on your iphone:
go to mail, contacts, etc in settings
under accts, select add account
select "other"
new screen, choose "add mail account"
now on the new acct screen you must enter your name, email address and password for your GMAIL acct ! (yes i said your gmail acct !, or some other acct with a NON comcast address).
hit next
then the acct verifies
when verified a screen will open with all the acct settings for this acct AND @ the top of the screen are the 2 buttons > imap or POP
select imap and THEN CHANGE ALL THE ACCOUNT information to the comcast account !
then hit next and the account will take a couple minutes to verify but it will verify and now you have a comcast imap acct set up on your iphone. The problem must be that when the iphone sends the initial verify acct info to comcast (if you enter that information first) the comcast server is simply not setup yet to signal the iphone that there is an imap option.

Emails will NOT delete from the server

Hello,
My issue is I have a gmail account setup on my phone. When I delete the emails from my phone it actually doesn't delete the emails from the main server account also. What it does is that it hides them, so when I access my gmail on the webserver, I have to actively look for them and manually delete them from there too.
This wasn't the case in the previous phones. Anyone tell me what is going wrong?
Thanks

oh ok , so you're not reading them first, just deleting and marked as archived.
Huh. Just looked, and it's the same on my gmail, never realized that. Gmail is only archiving not moving them to trash or fully deleting. That's a Gmail policy.
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The emails disappear when deleted on the server even while the checkbox "keep emails of this account on this PC" is checked

Hi,
i would like to use my account in a way, that when an email is deleted from the server (limited space) it still remains on my computer.
it did work for some time, but since I have a new PC, I was not able to configure it again that way.
I use IMAP.
Any toughts?
thanks very much,
Tamas

Dear Airmail,
Thanks for your answer. I did know this already.
Anyhow on my previous machine Thunderbird just did work differently, and I can not find the setting responsible for the change.
On my previous machine (also IMAP) if the message was deleted from the server (from an another machine for example) then that email did not disappear from my computer.
Maybe that was a failure of the Mozilla thunderbird back then, but anyhow I just would like to have that behavior without using an extra folder and see my emails in two folders..... not to mention, I dont know, if I have the local folder, how I automatically send all the emails from one email account to it the way it collects all of them but never delete...

I am trying to download Photoshop CS6 onto my Mac from the Adobe website, but I do not have a serial number. I made an Adobe ID, but the serial number is not under "My Products" nor have I received an email including a serial number. I do not know how els

I am trying to download Photoshop CS6 onto my Mac from the Adobe website, but I do not have a serial number. I made an Adobe ID, but the serial number is not under "My Products" nor have I received an email including a serial number. I do not know how else to find the serial number. Please help!

You need to contact Adobe Support either by chat or via phone when you have serial number and activation issues.
Here is a link to a page with options to help make contact:
http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/

I am changing laptops and have tried to download and install Acobat 9 Standard from the Adobe website, but get message that my serial number is invalid. I log in and double check my account and it shows as a valid serial number. Now what?

I am changing laptops and have tried to download and install Acrobat 9 Standard from the Adobe website, but get message that my serial number is invalid. I log in and double check my account and it shows as a valid serial number. Now what?

If you had it on a laptop that crashed and you threw away, it is still considered as activated on that machine. YOu should contact Adobe by chat or by phone and have them deactivate for you.
Here is a link to a page with options to help make contact:
http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/
If you are getting a message that indicates the serial number is not valid, you should look thru the following:
Error "The serial number is not valid for this product" | Creative Suite
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-serial-number-valid-product.html

When I trash e-mails I have received on the iPad from Outlook, are the messages also deleted from the Outlook server?al

When I trash e-mails I have received on the iPad from Outlook, are the e-mails also deleted from the Outlook server at the same time?

Hello falconrig,
It sounds like you have some questions about how your email account stores your information. This article has some information about different email account types and how they work:
Mail (Mavericks): About email accounts
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14873
IMAP accounts
With IMAP accounts, incoming and outgoing messages are stored on a mail server until you delete them. When your account connects to the server, it’s synced so that the messages on your Mac are the same as those on the server. You can read and manage messages from any device that you use to access your account, and download messages or attachments to work with when you’re not connected to the Internet.
Microsoft Exchange accounts
These accounts are similar to IMAP accounts, in that messages are stored on a mail server and accessible from different computers and locations. You can use flags in an Exchange account with some limitations.
For an Exchange account to be set up in Mail, the Exchange server must support Exchange Web Services (EWS). Contact your server administrator for more information.
POP accounts
With POP accounts, incoming messages are stored on a mail server and are downloaded to your Mac when you access your account. The messages remain on the server until they’re deleted from the server.
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My emails are deleting from the server...

I have recently purchased a new iMac, and set up my different email accounts. However, the emails are now being deleted from the server once they are downloaded to my iMac (and therefore my phone, and can't be accessed by my business partner). How do I stop this from happening?

How do I stop this from happening?
By using an IMAP or Exchange account for mail, rather than POP, which is what you have now.

My emails are deleted from the server daily. I checked leave emails on server? This is a new problem, My emails would always be on the server until I deleted

On a daily basis my emails are deleted from the server, even if I still have them on my computer.

Actually, it had to do with Comcast, not the iPad. The default for Comcast is IMAP, and that is based on the information they have available when the account goes into verification. It verifies an IMAP account, and since you have not migrated to the IMAP account, you were having problems. It isn't something anyone can fix, except you. It would not ask you at the beginning if you wanted IMAP or POP, it has to do with the mail provider's verification settings, which is a Comcast issue, but because they are providing IMAP now, it defaults to that. If you are still using POP, you have to force the mail app to get there, which is what I provided you the instructions for. Apple is not going to fix anything, because there is nothing for them to fix.
Either way, you got it fixed and that is all it takes. As a Comcast customer, I was aware of this, since I had migrated to IMAP already.

Emails are not delete from the handheld/server

Hello,
Our client has Blackberry 8330.
Emails are not deleted nor from the server nor from the phone. Maybe there any other setting set? Or are these settings set wrong?
Thanks you
He has these settings:
under Messages - Options - General Options, there's this field for "Keep message for" --> 2 months
The Options >Email reconciliation
Delete On: Mailbox & Handheld
Wireless Reconcile: ON
On Conflicsts: Mailbox Wins

Endriuska wrote:
It looks like it only synchrozines mailbox to handheld(if deleted from mailbox, will delete from handheld), but will it delete from mailbox if the email is deleted from handheld?
As discussed in the KB I linked for you, it depends. If, in the top grid, there is a YES in the Wireless Deletion column for the subject email service AND you have further configured, as per the KB you found, for deleted item reconciliation, then yes it should delete from the server when you delete from the HH.
Note that there may be a time lag, however -- deleted item reconciliation tends to be one of the lowest priority activities inside of both BIS as well as the email providers systems...I've seen it take up to 24 hours (not normally, but that's the extreme that I've witnessed).
Further, I believe that the on-HH setting for "Keep Messages" should have no effect on the server...deleted item reconciliation is a function of the end user actually deleting from the HH...not the auto-removal by virtue of this setting.
Hope that helps!
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HT3228 Why is mail not deleted from the server?

I receive mail onto my ipad - and want the settings to be such that if I delete it from my ipad inbox it is deleted from the server,
I have the advanced settings on the ipad saying -Delete from server - when removed from inbox - but it is not working - please help?
I want it this way so things I need to keep can be saved on my home PC - but things I want to read / action / delete can be done from my ipad and then deleted.
I keep about 10% of mail onto my PC.
Also confused as this used to work.....

Settings >> mail,contacts,calenders >> your email >> mail days to sync ( choose whats the best for you )

Droid X Emails Won't delete from GMail server

I have tried to go to Menu and settings and find a way to have my gmail emails deleted from the gmail servers after I delete them on my phone.
Can anyone point me to the direction of an existing solution or can advise?
Thanks

Yes it is my Gmail account. What i found I need to do to ensure that when I delete the emails from my phone they delete from the server is to, on the Droid X:
1) My Accounts, find gmail account and select it.
2) check the box 'sync gmail'
Then it clears the server.

Yahoo/att email from my ipad2 are deleted from the server view.

When reading my yahoo/att email from my ipad2 they are deleted from the server view. Is there any way to keep this from occuring? I have my home pc set to not delete upon reading to allow manual retention as needed.

If you recently added back your email account it was most likely set up as an IMAP account - renowned for the seamless sync across your device - yes I am being a little sarcastic there - at the technology not at you
The oft recommended way to "force" the email to be POP is to add your email address in there incorrectly - misspelling works fine - and then it asks whether you want a POP or IMAP account
Try that - delete the account - you will not lose your emails in there
Then re add and follow the steps I recommended and see if that solves your issue

I want to back up an IMAP account via POP3 in Thunderbird but it will not download old emails that are still on the server. How can I do this?

I wand to use Thunderbird to back up and purge old emails from an account via POP3. This account is accessed by other users using IMAP on their computers and phones.
I want to archive and purge old messages from the server using Thunderbird. But, it will not download messages that apparently are marked as read on the server via IMAP.

Pop mail accounts must be set up to 'leave messages on the server'.
check this before using.
* Tools > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
or
* menu icon > Options > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
select: 'leave messages on the server'
optional: select: 'for at most xx days' this will delete anything older than specified number of days select 'Until I delete them' when you delete an email it will be deleted off the server.
click on Ok to save settings.
Pop mail accounts only look at Inbox and download whatever has not been previously downloaded regardless of whether it has been read or not. They cannot access nor download from any other folder on the server.
If you wanted to download emails in other fodlers, you would have to move emails into the Inbox in order to download them and this may not be very practical in your situation.
What you can do is synchronize your IMAP folders to get a copy downloaded to your IMAP mail account.
Then go into 'offline' mode to stop any further synchronizing as synchronized folders do get updated.
MozBackup tool could now be used to backup the Profile as synchronising created mbox files which contain emails.
You can also do the following to get a copy outside of the IMAP mail account:
Create the same folders in 'Local Folders'.
Then right click on email and 'copy to' and select Local Folders and the folder you require.
Putting a copy in Local Folders means these emails are also on your computer and they are not influenced by anything you do in the IMAP folders.
You would need to backup emails in these folders.
See info:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP_backup
MozBackup:
* http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
ImportExporttool:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Users report no email messages after migration from Lion Server to a clean Mavericks Server with Migration Assistant

We have a Mac Mini server running Lion Server.
We bought a new Mac Mini server and installed OS X Mavericks and the Server app onto it.
We then ran Migration Asssitance on the Mavericks machine and migrated from the Lion server in target disk mode.
The migration seemed to run OK and all the user accounts seem to be working, however users are reporting that there are no email messages in their mailboxes.
Confirmed this behaviour by adding their accounts to mail (via IMAP) on a separate laptop.
Did we miss something? Is there an extra step to move the email service data?
Any insights would be grately appreciated.
Many thanks, Tom.

Hey tomgallagher!
You can use this article to help you troubleshoot the functionality of these Mail accounts if they are not functioning properly:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
If your saved emails did not come across properly in the Migration, you can always export the mail from the old computer and import it into the new computer manually:
Lion Mail: Export mailboxes
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4811
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