Deleting Email in Mail App Without Deleting It In Outlook

I manage all my email in Microsoft Outlook. A while back, I decided to open the Mail app and it downloaded ALL my email into it. As you can imagine, the Mail app and it's data are now taking up unneeded space on my Mac.


How can I delete all the data in the Mail app without also deleting it from Outlook? I tried deleting individual emails in Mail, but it also deleted them from Outlook.


Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,


Mark

iMac 24″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jun 30, 2025 11:50 AM

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Jun 30, 2025 01:12 PM in response to bmarkjones

bmarkjones wrote:

I manage all my email in Microsoft Outlook. A while back, I decided to open the Mail app and it downloaded ALL my email into it. As you can imagine, the Mail app and it's data are now taking up unneeded space on my Mac.

How can I delete all the data in the Mail app without also deleting it from Outlook? I tried deleting individual emails in Mail, but it also deleted them from Outlook.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

You don't. You're using an IMAP account, what you do on one device reflects on the the other.

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