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.gres...@greshko.com> 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". > > > -- > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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