Do you have any rules set up to move read messages to a folder? They may be activating even though you’ve moved them to your chosen folder.
Tim Law > On 4 Aug 2024, at 11:46 AM, Kaye and Geoff via WAMUG > <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> wrote: > > Hello Peter > >> On 31/07/2024, at 11:24 AM, Peter Curtis via WAMUG wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone >> I’m having problems with my emails disappearing after I put them into >> different folders. I receive the email, read it and keep it in a folder >> named by me. Sometimes when I go back to it the next day it is not there >> (nor any other emails previously kept. I’ve rebuilt the email folder to no >> avail. What am I doing wrong? or have I got a setting wrong? >> This has just started happening recently, I have sometimes had emails >> disappear after quite a time but it is now happening the next day sometimes. >> Hoping someone can help > > I have never seen this behaviour and have no idea what is happening, but you > could try searching for one of the disappeared emails using the mail search > function. Make sure that you have set it to search "all mailboxes" and > "entire message" and enter a word which you know was in the subject or in the > sender address. > > If nothing is found then you know that the message has really been deleted, > but if it is found then it will tell you where it is - maybe somewhere where > you did not expect. > > I cannot give you exact instructions on how to use search (my machine is very > old) but I assume that it is still in modern versions of mail and has the > same features. > > Regards > > Geoff >> -------------------- > > Kaye and Geoff > k...@kgweb.au > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
