Hiding deleted messages within the same mailbox Mailbox menu, select Erase Deleted Items orĮrase Deleted Messages. If you want to manually empty your deleted mail folder, from the Select Use This Mailbox For or Use Selected Mailbox You don't see it, from the View menu, select View Mailbox Back in the mail viewer window, look for your list of folders.Close the preferences window and click Save if prompted.When:', select how often Mail will empty your deleted mail folder. In the pop-up menu underneath 'Permanently erase deleted messages.Mailbox and Store deleted messages on the server are Section, make sure that Move deleted messages to the Trash Click the Mailbox Behaviors tab, and in the 'Trash'.Click the name of the account for which you want to set a deleted.In the preferences window, click Accounts.From the Mail menu, select Preferences.To configure OS X Mail to move deleted messages to a folder: Note: For accounts accessed in Exchange mode, this is Handling deleted messages: moving them to a designated deleted itemsįolder or marking and hiding them in the message index. Additionally, mail that is hard-deleted via Option-Delete skips the Trash folder and also does not go into the retention area.įor IMAP accounts, Mac OS X Mail has two methods of However, messages deleted from this folder do not go to the Exchange retention area, and they are When mail is deleted from macOS Mail, the messages go to the Trash folder as usual.
