Well I set the retention policy to 90 days and it went ahead and deleted all my mails from the server in that time period. Now I don't know what to do. It permanently deleted them. This is why I don't use email clients.
Any way to recover them ?
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 3:48 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2020-05-02 18:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 5/2/20 12:57 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
>>
>> On 5/2/20 2:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> I use Thunderbird for my personal email and Evolution for work (Exchange server). In Thunderbird, I can press CTRL-SHIFT-L and it will send to the list address and not the individual sender.
>>
>> Sir, you have converted me into a Thunderbird user. It is awesome. Let me know if the quoting is correct or not.
>>
>> I just have one question - my mailbox is huge but I want Thunderbird to keep mail for lets say the last 3 months. How do I do that ?
>
> Not sure what you're asking there. Thunderbird will access all your mail. Since you're using gmail, all the mail stays on the server and Thunderbird keeps a local cache for quick access.
Well, while what you say is true, the OP may be like me. While I do have email sorted to folders I don't want to
keep some emails past a given period of time. (this account is on gmail servers) I don't have the discipline triage.
And I just don't want to see them any longer or be tempted to scroll through emails from 2018. :-) :-)
So, I use the nice feature of T-Bird.
Right-Click on the folder you wish to manage. Pick "Retention Policy" And tell T-Bird to delete messages
after a given number of days. I manage folders individually rather than a single "account setting".
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