[iBook] Question about Apple Mail

[Eric Richardson]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 11:25 PM, May Hall wrote:

>
> On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Eric Richardson wrote:
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>>> Go to Mail Preferences/Accounts and select your .Mac account. You  
>>> can edit your preferences for that account, there.
>>>
>>> May
>>
>> That's right, but, it doesn't allow the option to automatically  
>> delete messages retrieved to my computer from the .Mac account.  
>> Any idea how to do that?
>
> In Mail Prefs, got to Accounts and select your .Mac account. Then  
> click the Advanced tab. Check Enable this account and Include when  
> automatically checking for new mail.
> There is a pulldown menu for "Keep copies of messages for offline  
> viewing" Change this to Don't keep copies of any messages.
>
> Under the Mailbox Behaviors tab, uncheck all of the checkboxes  
> except Trash/Move deleted messages to the Trash Mailbox.
>
> Try this.
>
> Also, if you want to delete any messages on the Server, you can  
> click on the little icon that looks like a star/flower at the  
> bottom of the Mailbox window, next to the + sign. At the bottom of  
> that menu is Get Info. Click on that and select your .mac account.  
> You can delete messages on the server, there.
>
> May

Thanks, May, it looks like that would do it... But when I do it, the  
program says that to make that change would mean that it couldn't  
filter the junk anymore. That would be more hassle than manually  
deleting messages from the server now and then.