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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 12:31 PM

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emails not going to trash just disappearing

when I delete an email from inbox they go to trash box until yesterday. Now when I delete an email in inbox it disappears completely. I have looked at settings on my MAC and in email on Infinity website, can't find a way to fix it. Help?

Problem Solver

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637 Messages

3 years ago

Well hello there!
Thank you for taking the time to reach out to our team here within our very own community!
Emails sent to the trash should remain in the trash bin for 14 days after deletion, whereas flagged spam will be deleted after 7 days. If those period of time have lapsed, then of course the emails will no longer be visible.
However, if you are in need of recovering a deleted email, you can visit the following link with steps on how to retrieve it after it's been done!
https://comca.st/3LTnwLI
Are you by chance able to see, or recover the missing emails by chance via that method? We hope to hear from you! 

Visitor

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@XfinityChelseaA​  Yes I can do that but I want to know how to fix my email so that messages I delete from inbox go into Trash and I can see them immediately if I happen to delete something by mistake. Don't want to go through the signing in to Xfinity etc etc to retrieve. I did not change any settings on my email, this just started happening earlier this week

Problem Solver

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637 Messages

Understood! Can I confirm, when this is happening, are you utilizing the Connect website to manage your emails? Or are you perhaps logged in and another mail platform with your @https://comca.st/3SrPf8y email address? (Such as outlook, mail app etc) 

I no longer work for Comcast.

Visitor

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3 Messages

Apple help was able to guide me into settings for the different mail boxes and fix the problem.

Valued Contributor

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406 Messages

That's great to hear, @user_199edb! Is there anything else we can assist you with right now? 

I no longer work for Comcast.

Official Employee

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1K Messages

Good morning,

To note, Comcast does not have the technical or otherwise capability of changing settings on your Apple devices for you. You may be better suited searching the apple support forums for assistance (https://discussions.apple.com/search?q=mac+mail+delete) or even make a post on the apple community for assistance in regards to your Apple products https://discussions.apple.com/welcome 

Reviewing our logs it appears that you have a mixture of IMAP and POP3 accounts set up with your email, its highly recommended to choose one method of account access and set up all your devices accordingly as either IMAP or POP3. The issue you are explaining is exclusive to 3rd party email clients and is not something that the Xfinity email service as a platform controls. By default design any email deleted goes into trash on our servers. Any action or behavior otherwise is the work of an external program, like Mac Mail. 


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Expert

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29.6K Messages

3 years ago

@user_199edb 

Do you have the account enabled in Mac Mail?  If so try this as a test to narrow down the source of the issue:

Disable the account in Mail.

Now sign into only the webmail interface using your browser.

Do a couple of test deletions from the Inbox.

Do they appear in the Trash folder like they are supposed to?

If the account works normally that way, then the issue is most likely with Mac Mail. 

Visitor

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1 Message

3 years ago

I have a Mac. But I don't use Mac mail! Comcast started about a month ago or so putting all of my inbox mail into trash. Even the unread emails! How do I stop this! Short of going to gmail!

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