Can I delete an email account through WinSCP?

**apercele79** · 12-10-2007 02:32 AM

i made the mistake of adding a second email account which I hardly use, but i get hundreds of junkmails per day....i wanna erase it now, but every time i click on that account, the phone just freezes...if i click on my main one, i have the option of deleting it; but when i click on the AOL account which i actually wanna delete, everything freezes, and only thing i can do is reboot the phone

i wanna try deleting it through winscp...is it even possbile?

**hquest** · 12-10-2007 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by apercele79

i made the mistake of adding a second email account which I hardly use, but i get hundreds of junkmails per day....i wanna erase it now, but every time i click on that account, the phone just freezes...if i click on my main one, i have the option of deleting it; but when i click on the AOL account which i actually wanna delete, everything freezes, and only thing i can do is reboot the phone

i wanna try deleting it through winscp...is it even possbile?

why dont you go to settings -> mail and delete account in there?

**NotFound** · 12-10-2007 05:43 AM

Same happened to my Gmail account. Apple sucks!
Get into the other email account's setting first, then step back to the list, and get into that AOL account setting.

**apercele79** · 12-10-2007 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by hquest

why dont you go to settings -> mail and delete account in there?

because when i click on that account, the phone freezes

must've tried it 10 times....

Former Bender · 12-10-2007 06:40 AM

Go to private/var/root/Library/Mail and you'll see folders representing each account.

Select the one you want to trash and boom !

**apercele79** · 12-10-2007 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by XianLi

Go to private/var/root/Library/Mail and you'll see folders representing each account.

Select the one you want to trash and boom !

that's the answer i was looking for

thanks XianLi!!!!

**saurabh** · 02-07-2008 05:40 PM

I tried this method... but I still have Gmail listed in the Settings>Mail>Accounts and when I click on it, it hangs! What is it that I need to edit/delete to get that account out from Settings>Mail>Accounts? Please help!