On 2020-05-04 22:23, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
In any event, it now sounds as if you want to move messages out of your "inbox" after a given period of time. For that, you'd use "Message Filters" located in Tools.No that is not what I want. I don't want local copies of messages more than 90 days old. I still want them on the server. I DONT WANT ANYTHING DELETED FROM THE SERVER.
The retention option is really dangerous I wish you told me that they would be permanently deleted.
Permanent deletion should not be allowed in Thunderbird.
Even when I delete a message in Gmail it goes to Trash.
If you go to "Account Settings", "Synchronization & Storage" it does spell out what happens.
The "retention option" is only dangerous if you don't realize what it is saying.
I suppose I take the term "delete" literally. If a function moves a message to Trash, it isn't "deleted" it is moved to a folder called Trash (the default setting). Even when it comes to "deleting" a message there are options in "Server Settings". One of which is actually deletion.