Mailbox Behaviors as in iOS

Hi, how can I configure in Apple Mail on OS X the mailbox folders for drafts, sent and deleted as in Mail on iOS?

Thank you. Your solution does work, although I cannot use it.
My wife, not exactly a TechnoHound, would have to switch from Chrome/Gmail to Mail/Gmail. She'd do it.
For the one email in a hundred she sends in French, she'd have to go through the menus to change the spell checker to and then from French, as you suggest. This she will not do.
What might work, given that a more elegant solution does not seem easily forthcoming, is for her to use Chrome/Gmail for her English emails, and Mail/Gmail for her French ones. It's clumsy, unMac-like I might say, but on the other hand today I have a solution that works, whereas yesterday I had none.
Even in Mail, though (which I had never used previously), the Spell Check / While Typing does not work nicely as it does on the iPhone. I don't know what Apple means by "While Typing", but what they obviously do not mean is "as soon as the software recognizes a likely word, it offers up that word for auto-completion". Likewise, the Mail direction to "Correct Spelling Automatically" does not seem to correct the spelling automatically. That's what my wife wants.
So I'm guessing that the Mac simply does not offer the capability. All I can tell my wife is to send her French emails from her iPhone. She figured that one out without me.

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My mailbox behavior setting keep resetting how do I fix this?

I have an iPad 2 and I just realized that the setting that are working fine for my two Google Apps IMAP accounts on my iPhone 4 are not working so well on the tablet.
More specifically I am trying to make it so that whenever I delete a message it is moved to a folder called "Deleted Message" not the Gmail "Trash" folder. I go and select this in the mailbox behavior setting for each account and correctly back out of the menus by hitting "done". However, whenever I actually delete an email the setting have reverted back to sending the message to the "Gmail/trash" folder. It somehow keeps mysteriously resetting.
Any ideas how to make this work or what I did that is causing it to trip up?

See:
iOS: Troubleshooting applications purchased from the App Store
Contact the developer/go to their support site if only one app.
Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
Restore to factory settings/new iPod

Mailbox behaviors: Erase messages in the junk mailbox

For each of my POP accounts, I have the Mailbox behaviors setting for junk mail set to "erase messages in the junk mailbox when one day old." This works fine for any mail which the mail filter catches and sends to the junk mailbox. However, many junk e-mails are not caught, so I click on the "Junk" button, to designate those e-mails as junk. At that time, they automatically move to the Junk mailbox. But within the junk mailbox are sub-boxes for each of my POP accounts, and another sub-box called "On my Mac." That's where the e-mails end up that I mark as junk, and they remain there forever. How do I tell Mail to automatically erase that junk mail after one day (or on whatever schedule I desire)?
iMac PowerMac 6,1 CPU: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Mac OS X (10.4.8) Mail v2.1
466 MHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Well, the Mailbox Behaviors settings are specific for each account, and the On My Mac Junk mailbox isn’t associated with any mail account, so there appears to be no way to specify such setting for that particular mailbox.
The thing is, the whole situation you’re describing doesn’t really make sense. If those messages end up in the On My Mac Junk mailbox, that means you’re manually marking them as junk after they’ve been moved to a custom “On My Mac” mailbox, which makes me believe what’s really happening here is not that many messages aren’t caught by the junk filter. What appears to be happening is that you have custom rules that prevent the junk filter from being able to catch them...

Changes to mailbox behaviors not being saved.

Hey guys,
I have two Google accounts set up on Apple Mail. When I try to edit the Mailbox Behaviors (under Preferences>Accounts>Mailbox Behaviors) they are never saved. My steps are:
1. Go to Mailbox Behaviors
2. Uncheck Drafts & Sent
3. Click the other account, choose another tab, or close preferences
4. Dialog appears asking if I want to save the changes
5. I choose to SAVE.
6. Go back into Mailbox Behaviors - the changes were not saved (i.e. everything is still checked).
Any ideas? I'm running 10.9 on a retina Macbook Pro.

OK...my previous attempt didnt work as the settings came back after a full sync. However, I found another thread that solved my problem. Hope this helps!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5468664?start=15&tstart=0
Steve Rhyne Oakland, CA
Re: Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder
Oct 24, 2013 10:30 AM (in response to Igor D.)
I had the same problem and it was causing dozens of versions of autosaved drafts to appear in my Trash. (Gmail autosaves drafts at the server level and trashes previous saves. The feature is not customizable.)
This fixed it for me, at least for the time being:
1) Quit Mail.app.
2) Log into Gmail in your favorite web browser.
3) Click on the gear menu and select "Settings".
4) Click on the "Labels" tab.
5) Under "System Labels", next to "Drafts", click on "show if unread" and uncheck the "Show in IMAP' box.
Now disable "Store draft messages on the server":
6) Launch Mail.app.
7) Select Mail > Preferences...
8) Click on the "Accounts" button in the toolbar.
9) Click once on the account name and then click the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab.
10) Uncheck the "Store draft messages on the server" box.
11) Close the window and opt to save your changes when prompted.
A few other Gmail / Mavericks Mail.app discoveries:
* You must enable the "Show in IMAP" option for the "All Mail" label in Gmail if you had it disabled before. (Google this tip for explanations and ramifications.)
* Mail.app now seems to automatically map the Sent, Junk, Trash and Drafts folders, i.e. you can't use this menu command anymore: Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Drafts / Sent / Junk / Trash
* I used to add the "[Gmail]" prefix under the "Advanced" tab of my mail account to eliminate it from the IMAP view, but it doesn't seem to be necessary any more, and might even have been causing some weirdness.

Mail not saving changes in Mailbox Behaviors

For one of my accounts since the upgrade to Mavericks when I enter the Mailbox Behaviors section, I found that Drafts, Junk and the one under Trash named Store Deleted messages on the server is checked.
I uncheck them because I doon't want them checked. I Save the changes I made then go back to that account and the same ones I just unchecked are now checked again. Its not saving what I just unchecked.
What the heck is wrong?
Also noticed that in OSX 10.8 I could drag all my email accounts to a different order than the way they are now listed. Can't do that now.

Thanks for discovering this issue being connected to drafts. I have trouble with this for a couple of months as well.
Since you assume it to be connected to "drafts", I suggest to deselect "Store draft messages on the server" for your IMAP-Account. I just did this for myself, to see if it helps, and can't give you results yet. Maybe you just wanna try simultaneously. I guess, the reason for our problem could me some messy communication between Mail and the server, where one party get's confused.
Greetings
Paul

Mailbox Behaviors Reverting to Prior Settings

I'm trying to set one of my MobileMe mail accounts not to display Notes in the Inbox. I go to Preferences>Account> Mailbox Behaviors and uncheck the box for "Show Notes in Inbox", but Mail reverts to the checked box next time I look at my mail and the Notes reappear in the Inbox.
How can I make this change permanent?

If the previous steps you tried did not resolve the issue you might want to think about a restore.
Here are a couple of articles from the apple support website that might help out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1737
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414?viewlocale=en_US

Mailbox Behaviors will not save

Got two outlook.com mail accounts running IMAP in Mavericks mail (with November patch).
I Uncheck the two checkboxes in Mailbox Behaviors that save drafts and sent mails on the server. I move cursor to the other account, first account confirms I want a save. Saved. Take a look, still unchecked.
Uncheck same items on second account, move cursor away to get Save confirmatiom. Save
Look at first account, check boxes are re-checked.
Change the first account again, second account boxed check themselves.
Repeat as often as I want, neither wil save permanently.
Any ideas?

OK maybe this is the solution... https://discussions.apple.com/message/23563857#23563857
EDIT: Nope. still reverts to checked as soon as I save the other account.
Anyone?

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.

Mailbox behaviors

I can't seem to change these advanced settings in my iphone .mac account. I want my trashed messages to go to the server not the iphone.
But my iphone won't let me make changes to any mailbox behaviors.
Is there a problem with my phone or a way to get this to function? Or are these features not adjustable?
Thank you.

fresh bread,
All that deleting your email messages is doing is placing them in the iPhone Trash folder.
How they behave from there is governed by your settings here:
Settings>Mail>.Mac>Advanced>Deleted Messages Remove
The choices are:
Never
After one day
After one week
After on month
Until the chosen time they will be on the server as are all your .Mac email messages.
Matt

Mailbox Behaviors – Big Problem

In Apple Mail, under Preferences / Accounts / Mailbox Behaviors, I have set the Trash preferences to “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox” and “Store deleted messages on the server” by checking the boxes next to those commands.
BUT, this is not happening. An accidentally deleted message (sent or received) is NOT sent to the Trash mailbox. And accidentally deleted messages are NOT stored on the server. They are permanently gone.
I know I am doing something wrong. But what? Does anyone have a clue? I need my Mail messages and have attempted to set up these backup processes so, when I make an error by accidentally deleting something, it remains on the server for access. Thanks for any and all help.
MacBook Pro 15-inch Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1Gig RAM, 80MB, 160GB La Cie Ext HD

Hello Jeff.
Select the Server Stored Trash mailbox for the account in the mailboxes drawer and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For and select Trash.
Test of this makes any difference.

IPhone IMAP Gmail mailbox behaviors not saved

I setup Gmail as an IMAP account so I can send mail from my own domain. It works, but I cannot get the mailbox behaviors to be saved. I go into Advanced then under Mailbox Behaviors I set Deleted Mailbox to All Mail (on the server), but it will not save that setting. It keeps defaulting back to Trash. I want to be able to delete a message on my phone and have it archived on the server.
I'm running OS 6.0.1 on an iPhone 5

Yes, good question about not playing nice with gmail.
Regarding your iPads, if you do backups to iCloud from them, those backups may occur at random times (e.g., middle of the night). Maybe the thing to do is record your iPads' (plural) gmail account settings, overtly set them the same as your iPhone's, and see if that works.

I have trouble setting the trash mailbox behavior. I have set it to delete every month but it has been keeping the trash mails for only about 10 days. Please help.

I have trouble setting the trash mailbox behavior. I have had it set to delete the messages once a month. But lately it has been deleting my messages every 10 days. I have tried choosing different options to set the trash mailbox behavior but has not been successful. Is there anything I can do? Please help.

Thanks for that advice @randers4.
I linked through and submitted my info as a "topic not covered" in the iCloud section. After entering the serial number of my MBP it turns out I wasn't eligible for technical support (though I don't think this is hardware related support) and the final suggestion was to take my computer into an Apple store. I called my local Apple reseller and asked for assistance. The customer service rep was very nice but unable to help, so suggested I call Apple Support on 1300 321 456. I did so and, again, spoke to two very polite and helpful customer service people (I was transferred to security services). I didn't have to be on hold to speak to either rep for more than a few seconds! After trying a few different things, he worked out what was happening...
So, to cut a long story short, to solve the problem in my OP, all I had to do was log out of iCloud in my System Preferences and log back in using my current Apple ID. [Edited to add that I had to sign out of everything I was currently signed in to with my Apple ID before logging out and in again.]
Problem solved!
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Mail; mailbox behaviors

I have set and saved mailbox behaviors to empty junk, sent, and trash folders after one day, but folders are not emptying. If I quit Mail, the folders empty, but they do not empty automatically after one day.

I have set and saved mailbox behaviors to empty junk,
sent, and trash folders after one day, but folders
are not emptying. If I quit Mail, the folders empty,
but they do not empty automatically after one day. Any suggestions for getting the 'dump' setting to work?

Mailbox behaviors have been set, why won't mail in trash won't automatically delete?

I have set the MailBox Behaviors to delete Trash at 30 days. It won't delete.

scooger,
If you read the post that originated this thread, you’ll see that your problem is clearly not the same. The problem in the case of the OP appears to be that the Trash reports some messages being there that don’t show up.
Posting about your problem in a thread that is discussing something else is called threadjacking, and goes against the Terms of Use of these forums:
Threadjack—To wrongly post a dissimilar issue in an existing discussion, distracting from the true focus of the discussion. If your issue has any significant difference from a similar topic, then you're probably better off posting a new topic to focus attention on your particular issue.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). If that doesn’t work, please either find a thread that really discusses the same problem, or start a new topic to properly discuss your problem in its own thread.

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".

Mailbox Behaviors as in iOS

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