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