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  • DJones · 1 year ago
    Is there a way to delete message from the phone but retain them on my computer?
  • Janet Miller · 11 months ago
    did you ever get a response to this question?
  • Janet Miller · 11 months ago
    Did you ever get a response to deleting messages on your iphone but retaining them on the computer?
  • Erick · 7 months ago
    did you ever get an answer???
  • sherry kelley · 1 year ago
    my email on the Iphone 3G with AOL--I cn no longer send read emails to the trast or delete--I clled Iphone and they told me it was an AOL problem I had to contact AOL--my AOL is filling up with unwanted emails
  • Jon Warner · 1 year ago
    Aol stinks, I'm changing to gmail
  • Charlie · 1 year ago
    Mine too... every since the 2.02 upgrade came out. Did you find a solution???
  • Jon Warner · 1 year ago
    Have message:
    iPhone cannot delete mail.
    Unable to move message the message could not be moved to the mailbox trash.
    Please email me the solution
    jon@cannonsports.com
  • Lisa Cassel · 1 year ago
    When I try to delete mail out of aol acct I get message that it cannot be moved to mailbox trash Help
  • Linda Beeler · 1 year ago
    To Lisa,
    Have you figured out a solution about delting your mail. I have the same problem. I get a messageunable to move message.
    Linda
  • Mike · 10 months ago
    Hi. My iPhone isn't allowing me to delete my inbox. A window is popping up saying that the message cannot go in the trash. Can you please help me? Send me the solution please. Thank you.
  • Mjazz · 1 year ago
    I've been having this same problem for over about a week. I have been able to delete from my MobileMe roadrunner and gmail accounts. Looks like we'll just have to wait till aol fixes problem or do the inconvenient thing and delete our emails from an actual computer.
  • Tommie · 1 year ago
    How can you Sync email with your computer to delete all (91) without doing each separately?
  • Linda Beeler · 1 year ago
    I have the I PHone. I try to delete my messages. It repeatedly says "unable to move message to trash bin. How do I correct this. It had been working fine. Please respond to my e-mail address. Thanks.
    Linda
  • Steve · 1 year ago
    did you ever get an answer?
  • Nozz · 12 months ago
    Linda,
    I have the same problem. I on AOL & have not been able to use the trash bin facility since downloading the new 2.02 upgrade. Please let me know if you are successful in solving the problem.Thanks
  • donna · 11 months ago
    i am having the same issue. it is so infuriating I can't get this to work at all did anyone respond to you>
  • John Lefebvre · 1 year ago
    Here is the msg. I receive when I try to delete e-mail.

    Unable to move Mesaages
    The messages could not be moved to the mailbox trash.

    Please help me.
  • dellis · 1 year ago
    Is there a way to do a mass delete? A la Blackberry, "delete all?"
  • John · 1 year ago
    tried this - worked on one email adress but not another. when this was tried a message was recieved saying " Unable to Move Message: Message could not be moved to mailbox trash". What should I do next?
  • davak · 1 year ago
    For those having problems, are you using POP or IMAP?
  • ty · 12 months ago
    put your iphone in airplane mode then delete msgs
  • Diana · 10 months ago
    Thank you!!! this worked for me. I couldn't delet my email forever, now It's gone.
  • barbieK1211 · 4 weeks ago
    Your a genius!!! It worked. God Bless!!!
  • JÕÊŁ Latino · 12 months ago
    Put ur iPhone in airplane then delete the mail you don't want and delete them from trash that's it u got it
  • ums · 12 months ago
    I had the same problem with a POP account. I went into the advanced settings for the account (on the iPhone) and re-set the destination for where the deleted items should go on the server.
  • Arline nechtow · 11 months ago
    Major problems deleting e-mails while on vacation. Major inconvenience getting to a desk top . Please contact me for discount on bill. Tenan@aol.com
  • Ac · 11 months ago
    I put my phone on airplane mode then proceeded with deleting my emails on aol.
  • frances · 11 months ago
    when you delete e-mail off the computer (yahoo account) does it delete the message on your iphone as well or does it show on your phone still?
  • Carol · 11 months ago
    Worked for me - thanks!!!
  • Gary Moore · 10 months ago
    Worked for me too On AOL just go to mail top setting and turn on AIRPLANE mode and emails can then be deleted either of two ways...
  • anonymous · 11 months ago
    If you are getting an error message when trying to delete AOL emails from your iPhone after the 2.2 software update, do this: tap Settings > Mail,Contacts,Calenders > (aol account) > Advanced > Deleted Messages. Select "Spam" from the list. Press Home button. Repeat the previous procedure except this time re-select "Trash" from the list. Tap the Home button. You will now be able to delete your AOL emails from the iPhone again.
  • Ben · 11 months ago
    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Dude · 11 months ago
    Holy Crap!!!!!! Thank You SOOOOOOO much!!!!!!
  • Mindy · 10 months ago
    You're awesome.thanks!!!!!
  • Rick Heard · 10 months ago
    This Totally Works! Thanks, it's been driving me crazy ever since the upgrade.
  • Carol · 11 months ago
    Still cannot delete emails - tried everything?
  • Iphone Noob · 10 months ago
    Here is what worked for me.... 1. Open SETTINGS....2. Open MAIL, CONTACTS, CALENDARS.....3. Open you Email Acct......4. Scroll down to ADVANCED and open....5. Open DELETED MAILBOX....(There should be a check mark next to TRASH) 6. Tap on something to uncheck TRASH (like SAVED or SENT ITEMS....I don't think it matters) Then Tap TRASH so the check mark is next to it again. 7. Press your HOME button to take you back to the Springboard....Now you can open your email and it should delete.
    It worked for me......GOOD LUCK
  • cliff · 10 months ago
    Thank you, it worked fine.
  • Sal · 6 months ago
    That did it!!
    Thanks a bunch.
  • Aneil Mishra · 2 months ago
    This worked perfectly -- thanks so much!
  • john · 10 months ago
    7. Pete Says:

    November 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
    I just called Apple support and the following seems to have fixed the problem: Go to settings > mail > click on the email account > advanced > deleted mailbox > then touch the “Trash” box. Nothing appears to happen — though it turns blue momentarily. The check remains. But when I went back into my email account (AOL), this had corrected the problem. I had previously tried to reset the iPhone and that failed to correct the problem
  • GlenW · 10 months ago
    What if you have no advanced ... Do you have to enable the advanced option ? I am getting the same problem connecting to an Exchange Server ... so it may be Exchange connector does not have an Advanced option ... was everyone here struggling with only AOL emails.
  • Karen · 10 months ago
    When I attempt to delete a message I get an error message that says "Unable to Move Message; The message could not be moved to the mailbox trash" . I do not even have a mailbox called trash.
  • bryan · 9 months ago
    yes but how do you delete 99 emails without having to touch each one of them,,,, that is my frustration
  • David · 9 months ago
    How do you delete email names?
  • Sal · 6 months ago
    Tried the above solution but the message " unable to move message to mailbox trash" comes up.
    Please help.
    Thanks
  • Steve · 5 months ago
    still can not delet the email...
  • John · 4 months ago
    This method of delelting isn't very efficient when it comes to over 400 emails.
    Is there a way to delete a bunch of them without having to tick one by one?
    It takes like 1 second to tick 2 but then you have to check the content to see whether you want to keep or not, im not gonna spend 20 minutes checking and deleting 400 emails. There must be a more efficient way of doing it.
  • Steffens Thomas G. · 3 months ago
    WHat about mass deletions. I had to restore my iPhone and somehow got 600 old Emails on. I can't delete them one by one1!!!
  • blulizzy · 2 months ago
    if when trying to delete email you get the "cant place message in trash" messages
    put your iphone in airplane mode then delete msgs
  • siba · 1 month ago
    Hi,
    thank you for the advice.
    would you know if there is any way to delete ALL messeges instantly and in one go?
    thank you
    Siba@compuserve.com
  • eosalanga · 1 month ago
    How do I set up my I phone so that when I delete messages from my I phone they are also deleted in my Hotmail. Thanks
  • serenasummerrose · 1 month ago
    Does anyone know how to set up my gmail account so that when I delete a message on my computer it deletes it on my phone, or vice versa? from "tired of deleting twice."
  • JordanLevy · 1 month ago
    Is there any way to bulk delete old emails, I have thousands and their eating up my hd space?
  • dolby3d · 3 weeks ago
    I have like 700 unread emails. Thats not true though ive readed all of them but on my iphone they apear unreaded. How do i delete all of them.
  • rooftech · 2 weeks ago
    When you open mail from Y mail it is different from Yahoo mail...how do you mark the email from Y mail once you open it but you want it to stay that it has not been read? I know how to do it with Yahoo but no Y mail.... please explain.
  • darrelhambright · 1 week ago
    after we follow the two methods for deleting email as described, the email reappears.