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From: Michael Fogler on 1 May 2010 07:38
On 2010-04-30 23:13:45 -0400, Barry Margolin said:

> In article <hrev29$ou5$1(a)solani.org>,
> Michael Fogler <guitarist(a)michaelfogler.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-25 13:17:46 -0400, Wes Groleau said:
>>
>>> A last resort option:
>>>
>>> Move your mbox file (the one that contains the actual messages) to a
>>> safe place (might be more than one, if you have multiple accounts.
>>> Delete everything else in ~/Library/Mail (indexes, etc.)
>>> Delete the mail plists
>>> Create a new account and replace what you just deleted from there
>>> Launch mail from your regular account
>>> Import your saved mbox file(s)
>>> Rebuild your preferences and account settings
>>>
>>> Last resort because it's a major pain and probably there's an
>>> easier way.
>>
>> Okay, I did this. Completely took away the entire Mail folder in
>> ~/Library and the apple.com.mail.plist file in ~/Library, and started
>> over. It was not that bad since my mail is IMAP :-). I imported my
>> local mboxes. Everything is great, *except* that it is still making a
>> copy of the junk emails to the trash folder. I can live with this,
>> but it's weird, and it shouldn't be. Any body else have any other
>> ideas?
>
> Do you have a POP or IMAP account? If it's IMAP, I'm thinking that
> maybe when the Mac moves the message out of the Inbox, the server is
> marking it as deleted and putting it into its Trash folder, and the Mac
> is seeing this.

It is IMAP. Anyway to stop this?
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Michael Fogler
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From: Barry Margolin on 1 May 2010 16:45
In article <hrh3qo$6ml$1(a)solani.org>,
Michael Fogler <guitarist(a)michaelfogler.com> wrote:

> On 2010-04-30 23:13:45 -0400, Barry Margolin said:
>
> > In article <hrev29$ou5$1(a)solani.org>,
> > Michael Fogler <guitarist(a)michaelfogler.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2010-04-25 13:17:46 -0400, Wes Groleau said:
> >>
> >>> A last resort option:
> >>>
> >>> Move your mbox file (the one that contains the actual messages) to a
> >>> safe place (might be more than one, if you have multiple accounts.
> >>> Delete everything else in ~/Library/Mail (indexes, etc.)
> >>> Delete the mail plists
> >>> Create a new account and replace what you just deleted from there
> >>> Launch mail from your regular account
> >>> Import your saved mbox file(s)
> >>> Rebuild your preferences and account settings
> >>>
> >>> Last resort because it's a major pain and probably there's an
> >>> easier way.
> >>
> >> Okay, I did this. Completely took away the entire Mail folder in
> >> ~/Library and the apple.com.mail.plist file in ~/Library, and started
> >> over. It was not that bad since my mail is IMAP :-). I imported my
> >> local mboxes. Everything is great, *except* that it is still making a
> >> copy of the junk emails to the trash folder. I can live with this,
> >> but it's weird, and it shouldn't be. Any body else have any other
> >> ideas?
> >
> > Do you have a POP or IMAP account? If it's IMAP, I'm thinking that
> > maybe when the Mac moves the message out of the Inbox, the server is
> > marking it as deleted and putting it into its Trash folder, and the Mac
> > is seeing this.
>
> It is IMAP. Anyway to stop this?

I don't see any settings in Mail. Maybe there's a setting on the
provider's server.

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