Getting rid of JunK Mail

[Driller]

I have tried removing mail items individually and also with the "select all <delete>" function. There are still around 50 of them that just hang in there

 

[Raz0rEdge]

This is in the Mac Mail application? How are you connected to your mail server, POP or IMAP? Do the emails delete and then re-appear?

 

[Driller]

I believe it to be iMap.

The 193 messages disappear upon deletion. Sometimes they show up again almost immediately other times, after successive deletions, it may take a day. But, like Freddy they always return.

 

[harryb2448]

Any chance you are using GoDaddy as there seems to be many, many problems with them and IMAP.


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4006035?start=30&tstart=0

 

[Driller]

Nope, just IMAP. It really is pretty weird in that if I delete some of them individually they just reappear right back in the original order.

 

[vansmith]

I've seen this before with GMail - emails get archived and then re-appear shortly thereafter. This appears to be an issue with Mail as I've never seen this when using the online clients. Have you tried to delete these using the web based interface?

 

[Driller]

Away from that computer right now but will check to see if the emails are in my gmail account or AOL. But either way I will see if they are in either web base and see if it works. Now, why didn't I think of that?

 

[vansmith]

It doesn't seem like a logical answer since it's fair to assume that the Mail app should do what it's supposed to but then again, all software never really works without imperfection.

 

[Driller]

Well, that did not work either. However the two storages were not the same. As I still had 2000 items in trash on the web but hardly any on IMAP. Took a look at my archive and good grief I must have over 5000 items in there I never archived!

It would be nice to eliminate the junk. I am at the age where I have made an online pharmaceutical purchase. So, some of the junk mail is from sites to which they probably peddle one's email. I don't like seeing it on my computer.

 

[cradom]

It doesn't seem like a logical answer since it's fair to assume that the Mail app should do what it's supposed to but then again, all software never really works without imperfection.

Mail does do what it's supposed to, it's Gmail with it's wonky imap nonstandard standard.

 

[chscag]

Mail does do what it's supposed to, it's Gmail with it's wonky imap nonstandard standard.

LOL, one reason why I refuse to use IMAP with gmail. My iCloud account works just fine as IMAP though.

 

[vansmith]

Mail does do what it's supposed to, it's Gmail with it's wonky imap nonstandard standard.

But if Mail purports to fully support GMail, should it not account for this? And so the vicious circle continues...

Yeah, I'd heard that Google was trying to move away from IMAP to use some sort of standard that was specific to GMail. Perhaps some of this has crept into their regular IMAP service for some reason?

 

[cradom]

I never said Mail fully supports Gmail. And I thought that's what computers were for, going around in circles