Samuel Sieb: >>> 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. Ed Greshko: > Well, I did write.... "And tell T-Bird to delete messages after a > given number of days". I thought the term "delete" was self- > explanatory. They're probably confused by Samuel's comment before yours, and didn't fully put the two messages together as conflicting conditions. Programs such as Evolution or Thunderbird using IMAP, and webbrowser interfaces to services such as Gmail, give you remote control over your mail service. Delete means delete, and ALWAYS needs thinking about before doing so. It may shift messages to a pending deletion folder, which gets purged by some other process (a time delay, or simply when you exit, giving you some chance at undeleting). Or it may delete immediately. And you may, or may not, be able to configure that kind of thing, but that needs to be done BEFORE the fact. If you don't want to delete, but merely filter out the clutter, then you can use an agent that has filtering options to only show recent messages. This is where some agents (web or local programs) shine, their ability to sort and filter things to suit how you want things to be organised. Or where they reveal themselves to be half-arsed at doing their job (no filtering, mangled replies that are a mess to read, etc). If you want to do manual collation, such as drag and drop various messages that don't have an easy-to-program rule for selection, or deleting particular messages, then a program running on your computer is usually easier and quicker than a webbrowser interface. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 31 23:36:51 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
