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.

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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 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?

Try re-indexing the mailboxes. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Reindex messages Mavericks/Yosemite

Mac mail keeps sending emails from different accounts even though it says correct email in "sent" folder. Recipients reply and it goes to different email address. So confusing.

mac mail keeps sending emails from my different accounts even though it says correct email in "sent" folder and correct email account was highlighted. Recipients reply and it goes to different email address. So confusing and annoying.

Hi Mike,
I had the same issue and managed to solve it.
Go into Mail>Preferences>Accounts
Then in the account information tab, at the bottom should be outgoing mail server (SMTP) and click the drop down box
Mine had a few different servers in it so i went into edit SMPT server list. Click advanced and it will tell you which ones are going from which email address.
Delete the ones you dont want, and it should work or instead of deleting click use only this server, i imagine that will work to
Hope This Helps
George

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.

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 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.

22find keeps returning to the opening page even after i remove it. i can't find the program anyware in my programes. how do i get rid of it?

this 22find open on the start page where firefox start used to be. i remove it from the properties of firefox but when i restart my computer the next time it reappears. it is very annoying. i have reinstalled firefox at least three times and it still comes up. how can i get rid of this.

it looks like some third-party software has hijacked your home page. See the following article for hints, how to get rid of it:
[[Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page]]

Deleted song keeps returning to library

I described this problem originally on this post as a song mysteriously replicating itself and automatically playing when iTunes launches. Here is what I've done so far:
physically deleted the directory the song was located and removed it from the system (emptied recycle bin and cleared it from the lib.) Looked after I did this, and the song and its associated folder were removed from the iTunes directory. Then searched the etire system for any reference to the file... nothing. Restarted iTunes: the file returned to the library and physically returned to the directory structure of the iTunes subdirectory.
deleted all references to the song again. deleted the iTunes library file and recreated the library file according to the online instructions. WHen I restarted iTunes to recreate the library, nothing was there except the phantom song! I looked and once again, it recreated the sub-directory structure for the artist / song.
deleted all references to the file again. deleted the library file again. uninstalled iTunes. deleted xml file. The only thing left was the actual directory which had all my music, except the phantom song I deleted and removed from the system. downloaded a fresh copy of iTunes. Installed. What appeared in the library after the install? you guesssed it, the phantom song.
This all started when I upgraded to version six, so I looked for a previous version of iTunes to download and could not find one.
Any insight? Know where I can find an older version of iTunes? Any ideas to keep Cyndi Lauper off of my freakin' computer!?!

Activity Window - is from the WINDOW menus on the menu bar in mail - this shows how the logging in, picking up mail, synchronizing mail etc is going.
Your mail keeps coming back because you are not waiting for the synchronization to finish.
You can also stop an activity by pressing the stop sign.
What may be happening is your mail is resynchronizing because you upgraded the software.
To check mail setting for an account - right click on its mail-box to edit the account. Settings depend on the service you are syncing. I only have 2 and Mac is different from my main mail account - Mac defaulted to never remove messages from the server - meaning it won't do an auto purge -- but will delete and purge them if you delete (wait for sync to occur) then using the mailbox menu - erase deleted items in that account or all accounts.
You can also choose to have deleted items moved to the trash folder in mail -- remember you have to erase them to get rid of them permanently - and before you do that you have to wait for the synchronization to occur.
(Took a while to get this in and hope it takes because apple keeps cutting out to page not found)

Deleted emails keep returning

Why do deleted emails keep returning on my mac? I use Mavericks OS.

Gmail makes it difficult to permanently erase messages.
Go to Gmail's web interface. Delete them there. Search in All Mail, select them, delete them, empty Gmail's Trash. Do this recursively until you can no longer find them anywhere.
After this it will take your iMac's Mail some time to sync with Gmail.
Then, examine your Gmail account settings in Mail. Verify that you have instructed Gmail to eventually delete messages.
Example:

Deleted e-mail keeps comming back some times days old email how to correct this

Deleted e-Mails keep coming back some are days old how to correct this

I am having the same problem. Not sure about the original poster, but hre is my situation. Hoping someone can provide assistance.
The deleted emails in my Galaxy S5's default email program (envelope with an red @ in the middle) keep returning like a bad case of ___. I have a Yahoo mail account and I access it from the S5, my Galaxy Note Pro (via AquaMail and Yahoo mail apps) and regular Web Yahoo mail.
Everything was working fine until Yahoo forced me to change my password last month. I then had to make several attempts to get my S5 and Note Pro programs to accept the new password, but ultimately all started accessing and syncing again. Only, if I delete email on the S5, they return in a few minutes. If I delete them on the Note Pro or regular Yahoo, all works properly and the S5 will sync and update the email inbox to match.
I tried the suggestion above, but did not see those settings. When I look at the "incoming" settings, I see am setup as a IMAP server, SSL security, Port 993. Outgoing is set to SMTP, SSL, Port 465. I see no other settings that can be changed.

Deleted emails keep returning on iMac

how can i get rid of emails that keep returning on imac
i have unticked the save in server box but every time i receive a new email they all come back again

From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences... ▹ Accounts
Select one of your IMAP accounts in the list on the left, then open the Mailbox Behaviors tab, Uncheck the box marked
Store deleted messages on the server
Do the same in your other IMAP accounts. Save the changes when prompted.

Deleted server based calendar from desktop iCal application keeps returning

iCal let's me delete it in preferences, but it keeps returning. I am syncing between multiple Macs. After deleting, I am doing a Reset and replace on MobileMe of the Calendar settings.
Thanks,
Ken

Are you talking about a server calendar that is NOT your mobileme calendar?

TS1398 My Ipad email seems to be locked. E-mails keep coming in but I cannot open or delete them. I am stuck on the e-mail page so now cannot do anything. Any suggestion? Eve

My ipad e-mail seems to be locked.E-mails keep coming in but I cannot open or delete them. As I am frozen on the e-mail page I cannot do anything els. Any suggestion? Eve

Try closing the Mail app completely and see if it works when you re-open the app : from the home screen (i.e. not with the Mail app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Mail app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
If that doesn't work then also do a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

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

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