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Use Mailbox Behaviors preferences in Mail to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived messages for an email account are stored.
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To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, then click Mailbox Behaviors.
Next, click on the Messages tab in the top-menu bar of your Mac and then click on Preferences in the drop-down menu. On the next screen, click on the Accounts tab and make sure that the Email appearing under section “You can be reached for Messages At” has a check mark and it is the same Email Address that is also active for iMessages on your iPhone. What to do when my email doesn’t work? Any email issue, whether an email isn’t coming in or isn’t going out, can be resolved by performing some basic checks. There are many reasons why email may stop working (incorrect email settings, wrong email passwords, etc.), however, the first step to identify the issue with your email is to review. Problems viewing messages and mailboxes. If a mailbox is offline. If searching doesn’t find the right emails. If emails aren’t displayed or look strange. If emails appear to be missing. If you can’t open Mail. If messages are in a Recovered Messages mailbox. One note: With All Mail enabled, Mail will keep multiple copies of your labeled messages. Mail now hides the copies, so you won’t be bothered by them, but the copies do take up disk space.
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Note: Mail stores messages in the mailbox you specify for each option.
- If you select a mailbox on the mail server, the messages are available when you use your email account on another computer. Mail selects the best mailbox for your account; before choosing a different server mailbox, check with your email account provider.
- If you select an On My Mac mailbox, the messages are stored on your Mac and are available only there.
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The settings you see vary depending on your account type.
Option | Description |
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Drafts Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store draft messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Sent Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store sent messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Junk Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store junk messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. Note: Select this option on each Mac where you’ll use your account, to avoid having two Junk mailboxes in the Mail sidebar. |
Erase junk messages | Mail automatically deletes junk messages at the specified time. Select a setting other than Never to avoid exceeding storage limits set by your email account provider. |
Trash Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store deleted messages, or choose None (deleted messages are removed and aren’t available in the Trash mailbox). This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Erase deleted messages | Mail erases deleted messages at the specified time. Select a setting other than Never to avoid exceeding storage limits set by your email account provider. If you selected None for Trash Mailbox, you can have Mail permanently delete messages automatically. If your email account provider sets up the server to delete older messages, the messages are deleted regardless of how you change this option. |
Archive Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server to store archived messages. |
If you use an Exchange account, you can choose to store draft, sent, junk, and deleted messages on the server, and when to erase junk and deleted messages.
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