How can I keep 1 days mail on my local machine here and that is it?
What good is a retention policy on these folders if I still get the avalanche of old emails from gmail or yahoo? All I want is TODAYS mail in my inbox and all other folders empty Unless I move something there) Why is that so damm hard to do?
I got my retention policies set at one day and yet I get the mudslide of emails from a week a ago of which I try and delete them
As a side note I'm tearing my hair out over this stupid compact folders thing
TB asks me if I want to compact my folders of course I do and then it tells me that I cant cause its busy doing something else (HOW stupid is that) just do it when the process allows it And yes I do uncheck that box every session and I still get that same stupid prompt
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It set me off that what I got was a "delete them" answer. Tbird I thought could just download the newest msgs and that's it ; and what is ever left on gmail or yahoo I don't care how long it sits there. This should not be a big deal to do and it was frustrating #1 not to find the answer on your own and #2 to get that reply. Case closed. ( I believe my accounts I do have those settings already selected but will investigate further)
Tbird gives you endless options and settings and this should be one of those most important to end users,
Will follow those informative instructions to prevent that avalanche of zeroes and ones to my machine. TY for the help
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4/22 and today is 4/30 No responses - typical
If you don't want to see old messages, delete them.
Did you understand my question? (I guess not) so therefore
Thunderturd cannot or isn't written well enough to...
filter or restrict only NEW mail to my local machine
And now I have to go back to yahoo and gmail (all 30 accounts I have) one-by-one and delete those msgs there
(rolling my eyes)
And one more thing ; for as much communication technology we humans have at our disposal these years WE STILL don't speak well OR LISTEN
As I say Smartphones - dumb people
Habenero4,
As I understand your question / issue. You use IMAP / POP3 and only the last 24 hours of mail in the local folder named 'INBOX' if this correct then in Thunderbird go to :
Preferences > Account Settings > <select email account>"
Once you have that email accounts' settings up go to:
"Synchronization & Storage"
and select to locally keep mails no older than X days and set X days to 1 days and save. You can also delete messages older than X days in the lower section.
For ease of understanding I have attached a screenshot from my Thunderbird instance to show you where to select options. If you need further assistance / or if I'm totally wrong in understanding your issue question feel free to reply here or at my Fedora or Mozilla emails on my profile.
"linuxmodder@fedoraproject.org | sheldon.corey@openmailbox.org"
P.S. While I can truly understand your frustration on the late and seemingly unhelpful replies of other volunteers here please try to refrain from inflammatory or overly rude umbrella stereotyping. This generally makes those helping feel like telling you to go 'stick it' (staying G rated) and makes others whom may wish to help or have a solution to your issue much less willing / likely to do so.
Corey's advice means, I think, that today it will download today's messages. Tomorrow it will download tomorrow's messages.
It won't do anything about today's messages tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow, it will download yet another day's messages, so you'll have three days of messages.
There is nothing there to magically "undownload" already downloaded messages. The way to get rid of old messages is to delete them or to file them.
I don't know what you expect the message store (either in Thunderbird or on the server) to do if you just leave messages on it. I see no point in having invisible messages on the server, which seems to be what you want.
If you believe that Thunderbird is badly coded, then please do tell us about any other email client that does it better.
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My response (which shall be complete and concise)
It set me off that what I got was a "delete them" answer. Tbird I thought could just download the newest msgs and that's it ; and what is ever left on gmail or yahoo I don't care how long it sits there. This should not be a big deal to do and it was frustrating #1 not to find the answer on your own and #2 to get that reply. Case closed. ( I believe my accounts I do have those settings already selected but will investigate further)
Tbird gives you endless options and settings and this should be one of those most important to end users,
Will follow those informative instructions to prevent that avalanche of zeroes and ones to my machine. TY for the help