Deleted Emails Keep appearing

[Hwilensky]

Hey all-

Hope all is well with everyone. I was just curious to know if this has happened to anyone before. I recently purchased an iMac, and have set up the mail using my gmail account. However, no matter how many times I delete the emails they keep popping back up. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Hwilensky

 

[miles01110]

Make sure it's an IMAP account.

 

[Hwilensky]

Thanks for the reply but it is an Imap. I set it up as a POP account, but I found out you can not delete the emails from my phone using POP. I would have to still delete emails from my mailbox on my desktop. Here is a screen shot maybe it will help out.

 

[paulrbeers]

So it is an IMAP account, but you set it up as POP? That's the point, you need to set it up as an IMAP account so that no matter which device you delete a message from, it deletes entirely.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Email_terminologies -> Check out the protocols section and learn the difference between POP3 and IMAP.

 

[peterlevannais]

go to mail.google.com and go to settings, then go the the forwarding and pop/imap tab. under folder size limits click on - Limit IMAP folders to contain no more than this many messages and set to 1000. you will be able to delete them and they won't come back.

 

[Hwilensky]

So it is an IMAP account, but you set it up as POP? That's the point, you need to set it up as an IMAP account so that no matter which device you delete a message from, it deletes entirely.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Email_terminologies -> Check out the protocols section and learn the difference between POP3 and IMAP.

I should of mentioned that I deleted the mailbox and reset it purely as an IMAP account. Yet it still keeps resending me emails after I delete them.

 

[dobledos]

when offline - delete messages and reappear

I have an Exchange account (now served through Exchange 365).
If I delete or move messages from my Inbox while OFFLINE (for example on a flight - a proper time to do some cleanup) - after a few minutes messages would reappear in the Inbox.
The "keep deleted messages in the server" is ticked - I prefer to have that as a backup.

Can it be solved without unticking the "keep messages in server"?

Thanks

 

[Magoo69]

Having same/ similar issue, any luck resolving this?

OSX is Mountain Lion, using MAC mail with IMAP through DavMail to connect to Echange 2003.

When wireless connection is a bit flakey, on a train for instance, recently moved or deleted email reappears back in the inbox.

Presuming this is as a result of the lost connection to exchange being reestablished and the exchange server taking precedence over the local Mac Mail?

Any thoughts or solutions?