Why does my iPhone say Cannot move Mail to trash?

Why does my iPhone say Cannot move Mail to trash?

Just go to Settings > Accounts & Passwords > Mail > your email account > Advanced > Deleted Mailbox under MAILBOX BEHAVIORS, make sure you have set it to Trash under ON THE SERVER.

How do I change trash settings in Apple Mail?

In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts. Select an account, click Mailbox Behaviors, then check the setting for the Trash Mailbox option.

How do I change IOS Mail from archive to delete?

Delete emails on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

1. Open Mail and go to your Inbox.
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then individually select the emails that you want to delete, or tap Select All.
3. Tap Trash or Archive. If you only see Archive, touch and hold Archive to see other options like Trash Selected Messages.

How do I select messages to delete or move?

Deleting or moving multiple messages To delete messages, click the trash icon located in the bar above the folder window (A). To move messages, click the folder icon (B), then select the appropriate destination from the drop-down menu that appears.

How do I move emails to trash on iPhone?

There is a workaround to select all your email on an iPhone — while in Edit mode, select a message, hold the move button, and then unselect the email. After this, you can move them to the trash.

Why can’t I delete any of my emails?

Open Send & Receive settings – Ctrl+Alt+S – then click Edit, select the account then Account Properties and check the delete options on the Deleted items folder. Make sure a trash folder is selected – even if one is selected, select it then click Ok to save.

Why do my Apple emails disappear?

If the missing emails are from a specific person or group, check whether you blocked messages from them. If you use rules, they may have moved messages to other mailboxes. Check the account’s Recovered Messages mailbox, if available in the Mail sidebar. Quit Mail, then reopen it.

How do I bulk delete iPhone messages?

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1. Open Settings > Messages.
2. Scroll down to the section labelled MESSAGE HISTORY.
3. Tap Keep Messages.
4. Choose 30 days. This will delete messages older than one month.
5. Then you can go back and delete the rest manually, likely much easier.

How do you select messages to delete or move on iPhone?

Delete a message

1. Touch and hold a message bubble, then tap More.
2. Select the message bubbles you want to delete, then tap .

Why is my mail not moving to trash?

If you have run into the following message in Mail on your Mac, Macbook, or Macbook Air: “The message could not be moved to the mailbox ‘Trash’” (or some other mailbox) “The message *.emlx couldn’t be copied to ‘Messages’ because an item with the same name already exists,” here is what to do to fix it.

How do I get my mail to trash on my iPhone?

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Accounts > [Your Account] > Account > Advanced, and where it says Deleted Mailbox. Be sure that it is set to Trash on the mail server. If that doesn’t work, go to your Mail app and tap Accounts.

How to FIX message could not be moved to mailbox?

YOUR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO FIX “THE MESSAGE COULD NOT BE MOVED TO THE MAILBOX” WORKED PERFECTLY. Worked for me after I rebuilt he sent folder.

When to move a message to the trash?

We most often see this when someone is trying to delete a message (move it to the Trash folder), but it can happen in other situations as well.