Where is my Trash mailbox?

I've just bought a brand new Macbook running 10.5.6. It all works fine except that in Mail I can't see a Trash Mailbox icon. I have tried setting the Mail Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviours to 'move deleted messages to a separate folder'. This doesn't cause a Trash icon to appear. If I try deleting an email it disappears but I don't know where. I only have 1 email account. Actually, I don't have a Sent or Junk mailbox icon either. Any solutions gratefully accepted.

Don't know if this will work, but I don't think it will do any harm.
Quit Mail.
Open Library/Mail in your home folder.
Select the POP- folder and File/Duplicate it. Drag the copy to the Desktop (in case this REALLY messes up)
Open the POP- folder and make a new folder in it.
Set the name of the folder to Deleted Messages.mbox
Stand well back and restart Mail
AK

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Where is the trash mailbox

it is not on the sidebar ? how to put it there?

I would take this question to the OS X Lion forum, since this forum is for the MacBook Pro hardware. On my side panel, I see the Trash Mailbox, so I'm not sure what your issue might be. I'm sure someone there will help you.

Where is the Trash in Mail?

I have searched all over preferences and under main menu drop down menus. I cannot find an option to show a Trash mailbox. And yet, Under Accounts - Mailbox Behavior - Trash, there is a checkbox to “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox.”
I see Junk and Delete. But where is Trash in Mail?
Duh.
Noodlehead

That's not up to you to decide. The account type is defined by the email provider. Some do allow a choice. I believe that the majority do not. If they do, they'll give you a choice in the account configuration and setup directions that they provide to you.
To the best of my knowledge, .mac is NOT one of those that give you a choice.
When you selected .mac in account setup, it is, essentially, imap. I really don't know what any differences are between selecting ".mac" and selecting "imap", and if none, why the distinction between the two during account setup is made. Maybe it was just to make things "easier" for .mac folks; some sort of marketing gizmo.
The only benefit I see to POP accounts is if you are paranoid about storing your mail on a server. However, until it was downloaded, it was stored there anyways. The big benefit that I see with IMAP is that regardless of from what computer you are accessing your account, your mailboxes on the different computers stay synchronized with one another, so the mailboxes on one computer don't get out of whack with those on another computer. It is always the "latest and greatest."

Junk and Trash mailboxes from Gmail disappeared on Mac Mail--any ideas?

Junk and Trash mailboxes from Gmail disappeared on Mac Mail--any ideas?
Under Mailboxes in Mac Mail, I used to see Inbox (along with sub-Inboxes for each account, all of which are still there), VIPs (still there), Sent (still there), Drafts, Junk and Trash, all of which are missing, without me making ANY changes anywhere, either on Mac Mail or Gmail.
Any ideas ... or other people experiencing same issue? (Happened in my wife's account and I just assumed the kids deleted something, but then I went to my account where the kids never are and I found the same issue.)

Do you mean that they are not listed under Gmail's header at the bottom of the Mailbox List or that they don't exist in the Unified Mailboxes at the top?
If they are not in the unified mailboxes, check down under Gmail and vice versa. If they are at the bottom under Gmail, select each separately and go to the Use Mailbox for command in the Mailbox menu. Set each one to what they are supposed to be, ie Trash, Junk, Sent, Drafts.
If they don't appear anywhere, log into Google's email website, go to Settings, click on the Labels tab and make sure those mailboxes are set to show in IMAP.
Finally, if they are IMAP accounts, just delete the accounts from Mail then re-add them. If you have a lot of email, it will take a while to synchronize, but it should recover those foldrs. If you are using POP, I'm not exactly sure how to save the old email, but I would assume Google is already doing that for you.

Mail settings: Where's my trash?

I don't know where my deleted emails are. I do not have a "Trash" mailbox on my iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch 4th Gen. manual says: Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>[select the account]>tap Advanced, and choose a location for Drafts, Sent, and Deleted mailboxes. But when I'm in "Advanced" the only option available is to choose how long messages remain once deleted - I can't find how to make the Deleted or Sent or Draft boxes visible.
Can anyone help?

I had similar problem with iPad and it turns out my trash was being sent to my server.
The problem was rectified by going to:
Settings
Mail, contacts, calendar
Click on the account where emails from
Account
Advanced
Under mailbox behaviours click deleted mailbox
under on my iPad Tick trash.
This solved my problem. Maybe it's similar for you.

HT5361 Why is that when I am composing a new message do I end up with multiple versions of my message I am composing up in my Google Trash mailbox? How can I stop this from happening?

Why is that when I am composing a new message do I end up with multiple versions of my message I am composing up in my Google Trash mailbox? How can I stop this from happening?

It was very hard to see what the box says because the message displays for less than one second. However, I was able to record it with my iphone and pause it until I got a shot of the message. The box says the following:
"Do you want the application “java” to accept incoming network connections?
Clicking deny may limit the application’s behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security preferences."
I did make some changes. I will see if it works.
Thank you!!!

I inadvertently deleted the 'trash' mailbox from Mail v3.6. How do get it back?

I inadvertently deleted the 'trash' mailbox from Mail v3.6. How do I get it back?

Hi,
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2308671?start=0&tstart=0

How can I prevent my Trash Mailbox from automatically deleting?

I keep changing the settings for the Trash mailbox to ERASE DELETED MESSAGES: NEVER but it continuously defaults back to ONE WEEK OLD. Please tell me how I can prevent it from defaulting back so it maintains the NEVER setting. Thank you. ([email protected])

Hi Mark,
You have posted in a forum for the leopard Server. I think you want to post in the 'plain' Leopard forum, click on this link to go there...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1223
-david

Where is the .trash directory?

Hi there, I have a .QT file taking up a lot of space on my HDD, i've used the whatsize program to locate the file and it deletes it to the .trash directory. However this is not the usual Trash folder so there is nothing to delete permanently from there.
Where can I find this directory and empty it so I can free up some valuable GB's on my HDD.
Thanks,
Luke.

I belive that the .trash is an invisable file, which means that you won't be able to see the file. to erase it I would look in a cleanup program. the one on the link below is called root machine.. in it I would try the basic empty trash securly, or go into the toold part and where it says trash info and lists the amount in the white oval just click on the oval, that should do the trick.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/rootmachine.html
powermac dual 2.7 G5, imac G4 800mhz, emac 1ghz, dual 2ghz powermac Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Just got my new Droid 2...dude says put unwanted widgets in trash. Where is the trash? Why isn't there a manual that tells you where the trash is?

Right. Long press on a short cut and the trash can displays at the bottom of the screen. Long press also works to move things.

Where is the trash folder in photos

iPhoto just got updated to Photos on my Macbook Air Yosemite 1-.10.3 Where is the trash folder in Photos? iPhoto had a trash folder and I could go back and search for a photo I'd deleted. I cannot find a trash folder on Photos. What happened to all the photos I had in the trash folder in iPhoto?

It's not calle Recently Deleted and is reached via the File ➙ Show Recently Deleted menu option.
There you can the remove them from the library or return them to the library.

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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Help!!! where is the trash folder in mail?????

hello everyone,
i just purchased a macbook.. my first ever. i started using the mail program... but, there is no trash folder. ive changed the "mailbox behaviors" to move deleted messages to the trash mailbox... but there IS NO trash mailbox.. unless i am crazy... the only folders i see listed on the left side are :
INBOX
SENT
and the e-mail accounts that I have added...
someone please help me! i am sooo confused!
thank you so much!

I am using IMAP for an AOL e-mail account
Well, that probably explains it. I bet you have checked Store deleted messages on the server. If so, this is not an IMAP issue, but rather an AOL issue (actually, .Mac is IMAP as well).
AOL doesn't let mail clients create mailboxes at the root level of the account directory, only as subfolders of Saved, and I'm not sure even that is possible now.
You may find instructions for setting up an AOL account in Mail here:
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/applemail.html
The instructions are for Mail 1.3, but they can be used for Mail 2.x as well, noting that the Special Mailboxes preference pane is called Mailbox Behaviors in Mail 2.x.
You may also want to read the more general guide the above article is part of:
Accessing the AOL Mail System using IMAP - An Unofficial Guide
BTW, in the case of Trash or Junk, I don't see the point of storing those messages on the server, even if that would work. They take valuable space there for no apparent benefit. I would only store Sent messages on the server (which cannot be done with AOL either).

How do I recover the trash mailbox in the mail application

Hello Everyone,
Today I was attempting to configure Gmail for mail.app and in the process I somehow deleted the trash mailbox that would normally reside under Inbox and Sent.
I don't really know how I deleted it or how to recover it but I am currently searching through all the mail.app system files.
Anyone have any idea what I can do to get that trash mailbox back?
Thanks,
Matt

Open your local Library. It's hidden so in Finder, hold down Option key and in the top menu, under "Go" select Library. The Finder will open your local library.
Enter Gmail in the search box and you should find a folder named,
[Gmail].mbox
Don't ask me why the name is written that way.
Right-click the file and select "Open Enclosing Folder" and you will see all your mail boxes for gmail. If the Trash is there, you have not deleted it.
Now, what you need is for someone to tell you how to put it back into the mail app.
I do not know how to do that, but at least you know whether or not the Trash is still on your system.
If you are using TM, it is much easier. Just open the email window and then open the TM interface from the Launch bar. You will see all your mail for as long as you have been using TM. Find the first instance of the Gmail trash in the time windows and click on it to select it. Not click the little Gear in the TM window and select restore it. The trash will be restored to your gmail account.
I have done this once and it works.

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Converting a Mac from SL to Mav and something new popped up. In the list of mailboxes below trash is one labled Archive. What is it? Where did it come from and how do I ditch it? It is empty.

If you are using Gmail, it is the All Mail label that has always existed, but Snow Leopard didn't show it.
You can disable it in Gmail's settings under Labels. Set it to not show in IMAP.
Some people experience problems when doing that, though. I did not.
I set up my Gmail as shown in this blog post: http://jeffschuette.com/2012/03/07/setting-up-apple-mail-to-rock-and-roll-with-g mail/
I didn't want Gmail storing emails that I had deleted, so I used his setup to stop it, and I also hid the All Mail folder from Mail.

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