Scroll down and select Delete Account, then confirm you do want to delete that account.
I want to change (perhaps delete) the picture, but now I cant find where that setting is Will someone please remind me what I did.
Once you’ve made a local copy of every mailbox, you’re now free to delete the account without losing messages. To delete your email account and set it up again, follow the following steps: Go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts, then select the email account. When I set up my Mail account, I selected a picture icon that is visible in the top right corner of all of my sent emails. But that’ll probably break things subtly - maybe Spotlight indexing or something.) (Instead of copying the messages, you could also move the associated files, since mailboxes are stored as folders under ~/Library/Mail/. Click on the lock icon in the bottom-left corner of the window to authenticate your admin privileges, then select the user you want to delete. Right click your selection and go to Copy To > (The name of your newly created mailbox). To delete an administrator account on Mac, go to the Users and Groups section of System Preferences.
Now go to the mailbox you want to archive and select all the messages. Go to Mailbox > New Mailbox and this sheet will show up: Basically, copy all messages into an “On My Mac” mailbox before you delete the account.įirst, make a new local mailbox to store the messages after your account is deleted. There are two kinds of mailboxes in Apple Mail - ones that sync with an associated email server, and “On My Mac” mailboxes that only exist on your Mac. Click the 'Trash' tab in the sidebar and you will see the list of your deleted emails. (You can choose Quit from the right-click, or ctrl-click.) Then the icon will disappear from your dock. Click 'View' from the menu bar and go to 'Show Deleted Messages'. Do you have Mail running (Is there a little light glowing under the icon) If so, you have to quit the application first. Click the 'Mail' icon on the dock to open Apple Mail. There are many reasons you’d want to do this - for example, you have a school-provided account where you lose access upon graduation. Here are the detailed steps of recovering deleted emails on Mac. Yesterday, I wanted to delete some of the old email accounts I had set up in Apple Mail, but I didn’t want to lose access to their emails because they have information I might want to reference later.