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Post subject: [SOLVED] Icedove folder viewing defaults?
 Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 02:39 PM
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Location: Cumbria, UK
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I can't seem to view any more than the last months worth
of mails in any folder. I even have some folders which appear
completely empty but only because the most recent mail
was more than a month old. I can verify that the mails exist
because I can access and read them with an ordinary text editor.
I'm probably missing something really simple but I need help.
(I'm guessing this is one of those mozilla config defaults which
have to be edited by hand).
Anyone know how I can access mails more than a month old? |
Last edited by clubex on Aug 06, 2008 - 02:11 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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We learn a little more each day.
I discovered the problem lies in the header of each mail.
On my system all my mails older than a month have:-
X-Mozilla-Status: 0019
Whereas they should at least have:-
X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 means the mail is unread
or
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 means the mail is read
I've no idea what 0019 means and looking at thhe codes for
X-Mozilla-Status:
http://www.eyrich-net.org/mozilla/X-Moz ... us.html?en
I'm no wiser.
From a brief look at the Thunderbird support archives and as I
understand it mails can be marked as deleted but are not actually
deleted until they are compacted and placed in the trash bin.
Anyway it's a trivial matter to reset the status to 0001 and all
the old mails are back. Only to discover I have mail going back
as far as Jan 14 2004. I was never one for throwing old stuff away!
Beats me though why my mails should have been marked as status 0019 except that Icedove was updated recently, |
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Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 10:33 PM
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The correct solution was the "Disk Space" setting in Accounts.
It had somehow been set to delete mails over 30 days old.
Now set to Don't delete. |
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