Old email showing up

If you changed your email address why when you search your old one shows up... Can this be changed to the new one instead

It is my understanding from other messages on this forum that the only way to eliminate the email from showing up in search is to completely reset your iPhone and start all over again in iTunes.
What I have gleamed is that there is a cache somewhere in the iPhone that stores the emails and it cannot be cleared except by a total reset of the phone.
I hope this helps.
-bob

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When I send an email, old emails completely unreleated, show up as a string in the email in my mail inbox. Very irritating and not sure why it is ahppening - seemed to start a few months ago. Only happens on my mac, when I'm in Mail. Just upgraded to Mountain Lion, but started on Lion a few months ago. Help.

Hard to tell without seeing the messages in question.
Some possibilities:
* Use of "reply" instead of "new message"
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I recently purchased a 500Gb drive for Time Machine. The good news is that it works exactly as described. One curious thing, however. I regularly delete emails from Mail. I show no emails in my current inbox and I've erased all deleted messages from my inbox. When I activate Time Machine, however, it shows about 750 emails in my current time inbox- dating back to 2006! I know I must have deleted these at some time, because of the nature of the messages. I'm assuming that I have a file of old deleted messages somewhere that needs to be erased. Any suggestions on what I can try?
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You have to purge old emails within Time Machine as well. Because it keeps incremental backup data, you need to launch Time Machine whilst within email, and highlight the messages you want to delete forever!
Go upto the Options Tab and click delete. You will be asked if this is what you really want to do, and the your admin password will be requested. Once you have authenticated all your emails will be gone.
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Hi ..
Try a reset.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If that doesn't help, tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
No data is lost due to a reset.

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First off this forum is staffed by volunteers and they answer questions as they have time. Posting the same more than once does not make it faster.
It sounds like a spammer is using your email address to send their junk. There is nothing that you can do to stop it. They will get. Ores with you soon and move on. DO NOT open tthemselveshe attachments.

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Hi all,
I've tried to get an answer to this elsewhere, hopefully someone here can shed some light on my problem.
I just switched both my GMAIL accounts from POP to IMAP: using the web interface, everything's fine; using the Mail app on my desktop, everything's fine; however, using the Mail app on my iPhone, one of the accounts is fine, but the other account only show a random smattering of email from between 2005 and 2007 as the "newest" emails. Now, new emails come in fine and dandy but as soon as there are fewer than 25, WHAM!, these random group starts showing up in the inbox. It's annoying as all get out. I've tried deleting the account from my iPhone and setting it up from scratch, to no avail. If both accounts were acting this way I'd chalk it up to either an error on my end, or some tick between GMAIL and my phone but these seem not to be the case. So, how about it? Any insight out there?
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Yes that is normal. The sync between your gmail inbox and the all mail folder in gmail is not immediate, so you will have an emal that will appear as unread in the all mail folder, yet you did read it already in the gmail inbox. There is no way around this nagging issue at present.
I cannot comment on the other point you raise as uses/behavior for sharing one's computer vary greatly. If you have privacy issues and still share your computer with others, you may want to create a guest user profile and have others use this guest user profile when using your computer. That way they will be able to use a browser, or create a document and so on and so forth, but will be prevented from seeing the data/files/folders and applications - the way you have set them up - you see when you are logged in.
To create a guest account go to system preferences>accounts
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Hi mzfitmama!
I have the same device, and I use different email accounts. This would drive me crazy as well! Let's figure it out. Are you using the email icon that came with the device, or did you download an application from the Play Market? Have you checked the email on your PCDo you have any other email accounts on the device? If so, do they give you any issues? Please check the email settings to make sure that everything is set correctly (open the email account, press Menu then Settings).
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The window that pops up with the title, sender, subject, date and the whole email content is a completely different email (i.e one from my inbox) which I could have received maybe 6 months ago!
The only way I can get around this is to log into my webmail IMAP mail and read it on there, where it opens the correct email....
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Guy

Guy,
Welcome to the Discussions.
It would appear likely that this is problem with the Envelope Index. Have you ever taken any action to remove the Envelope Index file (and other files) without first removing the IMAP account folder?
Let's force an overall reindexing via the removal of the Envelope Index. Note the special instructions when forcing the reindexing of IMAP or Exchange accounts in the following:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
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Has anyone encountered this issue or has a solution:
When I am in Apple's Mail application, specifically in my inbox and I "Enter time machine", my inbox count goes up by at least 100 extra emails and is showing in all recent backups and even in the "Now" setting. Old emails that I've already read and deleted/dealt with are showing up there and I'm not sure why. When I exit time machine, it goes back to normal and they disappear. I would like to have it accurately reflect what my inbox looks like now and the last few days. Any suggestions are much appreciated!
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1. Right click on the account and select archive mailbox. Save it to your desktop.
2. Under the file menu, select Import Mailboxes. Select mbox files and then select the file you just exported.
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Hello there, emsariel.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great information in regards to the issue you are describing:
iOS 7: If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5223
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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