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Javdogjavdog

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Sep 20, 2003
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Santa Cruz
Error message is as follows:

"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: Error in IMAP command received by server.."

This is my first Leopard bug. The Mail program cannot delete messages using IMAP. Mail worked fine using Tiger, so that is lame. Now I have to use Webmail to actually delete a message. Any thoughts?

Jav
 

Phil A.

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Apr 2, 2006
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Shropshire, UK
Error message is as follows:

"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: Error in IMAP command received by server.."

This is my first Leopard bug. The Mail program cannot delete messages using IMAP. Mail worked fine using Tiger, so that is lame. Now I have to use Webmail to actually delete a message. Any thoughts?

Jav

What IMAP server are you using? IMAP delete works fine in Leopard for me with GMail
 

baummer

macrumors 65816
Jan 18, 2005
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Southern California
Error message is as follows:

"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: Error in IMAP command received by server.."

This is my first Leopard bug. The Mail program cannot delete messages using IMAP. Mail worked fine using Tiger, so that is lame. Now I have to use Webmail to actually delete a message. Any thoughts?

Jav
This isn't a Leopard bug. The problem is on the server end. Which service? Or is this your own web site? I have 3 different IMAP accounts, all with different servers and providers and I have zero problems.
 

ianpiper

macrumors newbie
Nov 17, 2007
1
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Solution

This is not a server bug. It is something peculiar that seems to happen to IMAP account settings when upgrading to Leopard. Check out Mail->Preferences...->Accounts->Trash

You should see two checkboxes (if this is an IMAP account), the second of which reads "Store deleted messages on the server". This checkbox should not be checked - if it is checked, you get the error you reported.

Anyway, this happened to me on two of my machines and the above resolved it, so it is probably worth try.


Ian.
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arnski

macrumors newbie
Nov 26, 2007
2
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This did the trick for me, thx!

This is not a server bug. It is something peculiar that seems to happen to IMAP account settings when upgrading to Leopard. Check out Mail->Preferences...->Accounts->Trash

You should see two checkboxes (if this is an IMAP account), the second of which reads "Store deleted messages on the server". This checkbox should not be checked - if it is checked, you get the error you reported.

Ian.
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sm1tty

macrumors newbie
Jan 10, 2008
1
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NC
Thanks a lot, that did the trick!!!!

:)
This is not a server bug. It is something peculiar that seems to happen to IMAP account settings when upgrading to Leopard. Check out Mail->Preferences...->Accounts->Trash

You should see two checkboxes (if this is an IMAP account), the second of which reads "Store deleted messages on the server". This checkbox should not be checked - if it is checked, you get the error you reported.

Anyway, this happened to me on two of my machines and the above resolved it, so it is probably worth try.


Ian.
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Executive

macrumors newbie
Mar 15, 2011
2
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lonely at the top
this is not a server bug. It is something peculiar that seems to happen to imap account settings when upgrading to leopard. Check out mail->preferences...->accounts->trash

you should see two checkboxes (if this is an imap account), the second of which reads "store deleted messages on the server". This checkbox should not be checked - if it is checked, you get the error you reported.

Anyway, this happened to me on two of my machines and the above resolved it, so it is probably worth try.


Ian.
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thank you!
 

jakn09ab

macrumors newbie
Apr 10, 2011
4
0
Thank you

This is not a server bug. It is something peculiar that seems to happen to IMAP account settings when upgrading to Leopard. Check out Mail->Preferences...->Accounts->Trash

You should see two checkboxes (if this is an IMAP account), the second of which reads "Store deleted messages on the server". This checkbox should not be checked - if it is checked, you get the error you reported.

Anyway, this happened to me on two of my machines and the above resolved it, so it is probably worth try.


Ian.
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I've had a lot of troubles with this one as I somehow moved these emails from another account to my gmail trash.
I tried removing the account before and it didn't help. Then I followed your advice, and i was still the same problem. I removed the gmail and added it again and voila! Thanks a lot, my hair stopped turning gray for a few minutes! :)
 
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