How to setup Mail for an existing email account to delete messages from the server regularly

This guide will show you how to properly setup Mail with an existing email account so that it automatically deletes old messages from your server, keeping your server space from filling up.

If you do not already have an email account set up with Mail, click here for the new email account setup guide.

If you are having problems sending out emails from your newly created account, click here for instructions on how to resolve this problem.

1. Open Mail

2. From the toolbar click on Mail and select Preferences.

3. On the window that pops up, select the Accounts tab to view your existing email accounts.

4. On the next screen, select the email account that you would like to configure.

5. Click on the Server Settings button.

6. On the window that opens up, change the Server port to 26, to ensure that you can send out email messages, and click OK.

7. Click on the Advanced tab.

8. Under the checkbox labeled, "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message," select from the drop down menu the length of time you would like to keep old messages in the server. This will keep your inbox from filling up.

9. Close the window to save your changes.