On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:28:53 AM Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: > >>> J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>>> You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) > >>> > >>> Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves so fast, I figure a year should > >>> be > >>> more than plenty. Maybe I need to rethink that a little. I could > >>> be > >>> wrong. :/ > >> > >> I've just raised the expiry period on my GentooUser folder to 365 days > >> so as not to be caught out this way again. > > > > Where do you set that? > > > > -- > > Joost > > Depends on what email program you use. I use Seamonkey for mine but a > friend showed me mutt the other day. I need to ask him if I can be > nosey and look at it closer to see how it works. I was several feet > away at the time. It was threaded tho. I love my threading feature. ;-) > > If you use Seamonkey, right click on the folder that the emails go to. > Select properties and then the retention tab in the pop up. Just click > on the correct stuff and set it to how many days you want it kept. Some > other programs may have something similar tho.
I use KMail to an IMAP server and as I am a digital pack-rat, I hardly ever delete anything. :) Only time I will delete any email or documents is when it's either duplicated or covered by a confidentiality agreement. :) -- Joost
