windows 10 mail - delete email from server

Deleting is not enough, you have to make a sync afterward  and you will see the mail disappears from the deleted box as well as removed from the server. 

 I personally prefer to empty my delete box manually just in case I want to take one mail back from mistake soon after.

 Anyway, I didn't find any "remove or keep on the server" option in the settings. I understand Mail App isn't intended to be a very sophisticated mail client, but this option exists in the simplest ones. 

 Let's say I keep some of my mails on my desktop PC, I then go travel with my laptop to get the last mails and..... I download first all the previous mails saved on my desktop where I have no "remove from server" option!!!!!

 So far I have kept Live Mail on my desktop. 

Deleting is not enough, you have to make a sync afterward  and you will see the mail disappears from the deleted box as well as removed from the server. 

 I personally prefer to empty my delete box manually just in case I want to take one mail back from mistake soon after.

 Anyway, I didn't find any "remove or keep on the server" option in the settings. I understand Mail App isn't intended to be a very sophisticated mail client, but this option exists in the simplest ones. 

 Let's say I keep some of my mails on my desktop PC, I then go travel with my laptop to get the last mails and..... I download first all the previous mails saved on my desktop where I have no "remove from server" option!!!!!

 So far I have kept Live Mail on my desktop. 

I agree the older versions had the setting to remove from the server after a number of days.  I don't quite understand why they would do this. I just began using this as a possible email and do like it but still access my gmail account at work. This makes it very difficult if all of those are not deleting at the same time. A little frustrating. I am glad I was able to see this for myself prior to helping someone in my field of work which is Internet Help Desk were people call in for simple things like this. Maybe an update will be added soon.

Hi all

I have windows 10 now and I'm using the Mail app, now I use Hotmail for my email client always have done.

Now when I delete an email from windows Mail it doesn't seem to delete form the Hotmail when I login on the website.

can anybody tell me how I delete it form the server  using the windows mail app please I cannot see an option in the settings

@barriehunter -- Actually IMAP is supposedly the preferred protocol for your situation (multiple devices checking the same email account).  I'm having trouble getting my Internet provider to NOT use POP AND the fact that the Win10 Mail client doesn't have the option to leave the messages on the server...  

Here's more info on the POP vs IMAP differences: http://www.pop2imap.com/

Thanks for you insight.  So sad that something that even my Android phone has could not be incorporated into the Windows 10 mail program.  MS should be embarrassed that the ability to "delete from server after __ days" could not be included.

Deleting is not enough, you have to make a sync afterward  and you will see the mail disappears from the deleted box as well as removed from the server. 

 I personally prefer to empty my delete box manually just in case I want to take one mail back from mistake soon after.

 Anyway, I didn't find any "remove or keep on the server" option in the settings. I understand Mail App isn't intended to be a very sophisticated mail client, but this option exists in the simplest ones. 

 Let's say I keep some of my mails on my desktop PC, I then go travel with my laptop to get the last mails and..... I download first all the previous mails saved on my desktop where I have no "remove from server" option!!!!!

 So far I have kept Live Mail on my desktop. 

Thank you for this explanation.

That is so silly,especially that you can not sync all the accs you have in Windows mail at the same time,with only one click.

I have 9 various accs,and I have to manually sync each and every one of them.

Well done Micosoft !!!