And when I delete an email while viewing it, sometimes it just goes to a blank dark screen, other times it displays the next email in the inbox (expected behaviour) while sometimes it simply goes back to the particular account inbox (not All Inboxes). The Mail app has been a. show for me since iOS 12. But Apple buried the settings for archiving and deleting inside the settings for your individual mail accounts. We’ll get to that in a moment, but first, the main settings. Once you find Settings. Use Mailbox Behaviors preferences in Mail to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived messages for an email account are stored. To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, then click Mailbox Behaviors. Note: Mail stores messages in the mailbox you specify for each option. Delete built-in Apple apps on your iOS 12 or later device or Apple Watch. Delete a built-in app from your device. On your iOS device, touch and hold the app lightly until it jiggles. If the app doesn't jiggle, make sure that you're not pressing too hard. Tap on the app, then tap Delete. Press the Home button to finish. If you have an Apple. Apple Mail will not delete an email. Apple Mail is unable to move the message to the Trash mailbox. This is a known bug with Apple Mail. Disable Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox. Open Preferences. Select Accounts. Select your Account and click Mailbox Behaviors. Untick Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox.

Remove Email Account from Mac Using Mail App. If the Email Account that you want to delete from Mac is not associated with other Apps (Notes, Contacts), you can remove the Email Account by using the Mail App. Open the Mail App on your Mac select the Mail tab in top-menu bar and click on Accounts. On the next screen, select your Email. @Apple - the DELETE key function in mail is still broken as of iOS 11. Before that, I could open mail. I would have to manually delete the first email. DELETE key wouldn’t work immediately DELETE key worked from 2nd email forward. This is not a HARDWARE issue. It is a SOFTWARE Issue.

Mail User Guide

You can delete email messages that you don’t need anymore to help keep your mailboxes manageable, and to free up storage space on your Mac or on the mail server. Deleted messages are available until they’re permanently erased.

Delete an email

1. In the Mail app on your Mac, select a message.

2. Click the Delete button in the Mail toolbar or move the pointer over the message’s header, then click the Delete button that appears.

   Tip: To prevent the next message in the list from being automatically selected (and marked as read), press and hold the Option key when you delete the message.

If you set the “Move discarded messages” option to Trash in Viewing preferences in Mail, you can delete a message by swiping left on the trackpad with two fingers or by moving the pointer over a Mail notification, then clicking Delete (or the Trash icon).

Delete multiple emails

1. In the Mail app on your Mac, select messages or conversations in the list.

   All of the messages in a conversation will be deleted.

2. Click the Delete button in the Mail toolbar or press the Delete key.

If you delete a mailbox, all of the messages in the mailbox are deleted.

You can search for a set of messages to delete. For example, you can search for messages dated August 1 through September 5, 2020 by entering “date:8/01/20-9/05/20” in the Mail search field. Or, search for messages from a specific person by entering a name in the search field. Then select and delete the found messages.

View deleted emails

Whether you can view and retrieve messages after you delete them depends on how you set options in Mail preferences.

1. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.

2. Select an account, click Mailbox Behaviors, then check the setting for the Trash Mailbox option.

   • If a mailbox is specified: You can view deleted messages in the Trash mailbox until they’re permanently erased. To retrieve a deleted message, drag it from the Trash mailbox to another mailbox.

   • If None is specified: Deleted messages are removed and aren’t available in the Trash mailbox.

Permanently delete emails

In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following:

• Choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items, then choose an account.

• In the Mail sidebar, Control-click a Trash mailbox, then choose Erase Deleted Items.

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You can set the “Erase deleted messages” option in Mail preferences to have Mail permanently erase deleted messages for you at a specified time. See Change Mailbox Behaviors preferences.

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If you mistakenly delete messages, just drag them out of the Trash mailbox to another mailbox. Or select them in the Trash mailbox, then choose Message > Move to > [mailbox].

If you set up Time Machine to back up files on your Mac, you can use the backups to restore content that Mail downloaded (based on options set in Mail and on your Mac). See Restore items backed up with Time Machine.