Mozilla's Thunderbird email program: how do I prevent old emails from being automatically deleted?

Mozilla's Thunderbird email program: How do I prevent old emails from being automatically deleted?

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broti0790
4 months ago

How did you set up the program? It may be a setting from the e-mail provider and not from the Thunderbird.

broti0790
4 months ago
Reply to  nbergmann1955

You need to adjust this to your provider Web.de. Log in to Web.de and change the deletion periods from the inbox folder. Because at Web.de they remain there and are also deleted in the email client when both synchronize with each other.

Chinama
4 months ago

Go to Extras -> Account Settings > Server Settings -> “Leave Messages on the Server” or “Local Messages from the Server to …”

PaterAlfonso
4 months ago

Thunderbird deletes “older” mails only if you set it up.

And as to delete mails on the server (apart from the settings for the account via the web client):

PaterAlfonso
4 months ago
Reply to  nbergmann1955

I just added something. Then I guess it was. TB does not automatically extinguish anything.

ZaoDaDong
4 months ago

If you use IMAP, you can’t set it in Thunderbird, then your mailing provider usually controls it. So you would have to set any erasing intervals directly there.
You could regularly backup your mails in Thunderbird to archive important yourself.

broti0790
4 months ago
Reply to  nbergmann1955

Yes, yet you need to check and customize the settings at Web.de if otherwise in Thunderbird all settings are set correctly. That’s why I asked how you set up Thunderbird!

HeinzHubert
4 months ago

You can export the mails from the “representation” folder on the old computer and import them to the new one. So you have the mails, but there is no risk of importing damaged settings.