Delete email in S60 devices

Since the Nokia phone first retrieves all the message headers from the remote POP/IMAP server, it retrieves the message bodies only when you specifically instruct it to do so (e.g., by opening a message). So, when you delete a message via the Options Delete menu, you have two options:

If you choose to delete from the phone memory only, the message body is deleted. But the message header remains in the phone memory. You can still see the message in the email message list, and if you open it, the phone redownloads the message's body.

If you choose to delete the message from both the phone and the server, the message header is marked with a delete sign in the phone's email list. The next time the phone connects to the server, it instructs the server to delete the message immediately.

When deleting a message, the Nokia email client behaves differently from most desktop email clients. Desktop email clients can be configured to delete the message on the server several days after the message is deleted locally. That allows you to recover deleted messages from the server if you need to. The Nokia phone's native email Inbox is always a mirror of the account on the server. The deleted messages are erased from the server immediately after the phone connects to the server the next time.