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mac_in_tosh

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I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.
 

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I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.
What's your Trash mailbox setting for AOL (Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors)?
 

AZhappyjack

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I'm on Mac OS Monterey using the Mac Mail program to access AOL Mail. Until recently the procedure for deleting an email was as follows: highlight the email in Inbox - AOL, click on the trash can icon, at some later time go to Trash - AOL, highlight the email and click on the trash can icon. Now, as soon as I go to Trash - AOL some or all of the emails there disappear before I do anything.

What might have changed? Thanks.
Is it configured as IMAP? Is there some server-side rule that is running and deleting the emails before the client threshold is triggered?
 

mac_in_tosh

macrumors 6502a
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Nov 6, 2016
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Is it configured as IMAP? Is there some server-side rule that is running and deleting the emails before the client threshold is triggered?
Yes, IMAP. If you mean some AOL Mail rule, I never changed anything there, for sure not recently when the behavior I am seeing started. What's odd is that when I click on the Trash - AOL mailbox, sometimes some of the emails there will disappear as I watch, sometimes none of them do. It's hard to imagine any rule that would distinguish emails that way.
 
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