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Thunderbird retention policy

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I have set the retention policy on my Thunderbird account for 30 days both in the setting for the inbox and the All Mail inbox and I have used the same setting for my account however it only works on the inbox and I have 1745 message in the All Mail folder which intermittently deletes the older messages and then restores them.

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I have set the retention policy on my Thunderbird account for 30 days both in the setting for the inbox and the All Mail inbox and I have used the same setting for my account however it only works on the inbox and I have 1745 message in the All Mail folder which intermittently deletes the older messages and then restores them. Am I doing something wrong?

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highlight the account on main screen,right click and select 'subscribe' and a window will pop up where you can untick the subscription.

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My experience is that AllMail is managed by Gmail. Since it is a duplicate of every message, I advise NOT subscribing to it, since it roughly doubles all processing time and doubles storage space.

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Thanks David. How do I unsubscribe? Do I just delete the folder?

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highlight the account on main screen,right click and select 'subscribe' and a window will pop up where you can untick the subscription.

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David. Thanks again. Thats it sorted

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You're welcome. I also suggest deleting the allmail and allmail.msf files in Imapmail\<accountname> in your profile AFTER exiting thunderbird.

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