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received message left in inbox get purged after restarting thunderbird

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pglusker
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Sometimes when I leave received message in my inbox, rather than disposing of them in some other way, graand then close Thunderbird, the message get purged the next time I restart the program. How I make sure that any messages in the inbox will stay until I dispose of them myself.

Sometimes when I leave received message in my inbox, rather than disposing of them in some other way, graand then close Thunderbird, the message get purged the next time I restart the program. How I make sure that any messages in the inbox will stay until I dispose of them myself.

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duggabe
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Look at Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Message Storage and uncheck "Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit"

I'm assuming you use IMAP. Did that work?

pglusker
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The expunge option was not ticked. I changed to cache to allow larger capacity before compressing. So far it has not happened since I made that change.