Schedule permanent email removal

Question

I have an iPod Touch on which I use a POP email account. When I first started doing this many months ago, I found it annoying that I had to delete individual emails from the Inbox -- which is to say, move them to the Trash -- and then they would pile up in the Trash until I opened that and individually deleted them again to remove them from the device altogether.
Later I discovered that there was a setting under Mail settings in the account's Advanced section that you me specify how long deleted messages would hang around in the Trash until they automatically removed themselves from the device. Eureka! Now deleted messages would sit in the Trash and then disappear on their own after a day or so. This setting is documented in the old Knowledge base article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1330
It’s the second bullet under Adjust Advanced Settings
Now I've done the latest upgrades and I find that this option has disappeared from the version 2.0 software, at least for POP accounts. My particular accounts’ setting appears to still hold, i.e. my messages that I move to the Trash are still staying there for a day and then disappearing. But I'm fearful that if I ever want to change the setting (e.g., change it to ‘after one week’ instead of ‘after one day’), add a new email account, or if my iPod simply gets clobbered and I need to set it up from scratch again, I won't know how to get things back to the way I like them now that I can't find this setting's switch any more.
So my question, briefly: under version 2 iPod/iPhone software, does anyone know how to set the time frame in which deleted (i.e., moved to the Trash) POP emails get permanently removed from the iPod?

Answer 1

Do you want to remove the icon or the email account?
You can only hide the icon if you don't want to see it anymore. To do that just ALT+click on it, and in the menu that appears, choose Hide. If you delete the email account (either through your carrier's BIS site, or through the email setup icon on the device), the icon will be removed.
Message Edited by jmrmb80 on 03-17-2009 09:45 AM
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