Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Why does deleted email go to archive and not trash?

D

davidlw

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
May 19, 2008
542
0
Why does email that I want to delete bring up a icon that says archive and not delete? I want to delete the email and not archive it.
 
Ok, I think that is because it is GMail. If that is the case, how do I delete the archived emails? Where do I find the archived emails to ultimately delete them?
 
davidlw said:
Ok, I think that is because it is GMail. If that is the case, how do I delete the archived emails? Where do I find the archived emails to ultimately delete them?
Click to expand...

You have to go into the mail settings and choose gmail act and turn off archive mail. Easy fix.
 
whsbuss said:
Sorry but that won't work. Do a search here and you will find its Gmail's implementation of exchange that causes deleted email to be archived.
Click to expand...

Not correct. The fix works if you setup gmail via imap. If you set it up as exchange, then it will not work.
 
jenzjen said:
Not correct. The fix works if you setup gmail via imap. If you set it up as exchange, then it will not work.
Click to expand...

If it was setup via Gmail/imap then the delete button DOES delete, thus if some one is 'deleting' and it is actually archiving they are obviously using exchange - so the poster was correct.

Edit. jenzjen is indeed correct - I simply miss read the OP.
 
Last edited:
TheOriginalKi said:
If it was setup via Gmail/imap then the delete button DOES delete, thus if some one is 'deleting' and it is actually archiving they are obviously using exchange - so the poster was correct.
Click to expand...

Nice. I always appreciate it when people try to be superheroes and end up falling flat on their face. Kudos to you.

My post was correct.

Look above, the OP already replied thanking the forum for the fix, which means he was using Gmail via IMAP. Exchange and whsbuss reply are (a) incorrect and (b) irrelevant.

Second, the OP never said he is deleting with the phone actually archiving. Reading comprehension, please. He wrote "Why does email that I WANT to delete bring up a icon that says archive and not delete?" ... he was not getting any delete icon only the archive icon - which happens under both IMAP and exchange.

Thanks for playing.
 
I miss read and so I apologise. I had a very early start this morning and am looking forward to getting out of work shortly.

I will mention though that when setup via exchange that you only get a delete icon - granted it doesn't delete, but that's the icon that shows.
 
Last edited:
Using exchange under advanced i just changed the deleted mailbox to trash and anything deleted gets moved there when i delete in the mail.app. Works for me...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back