[MlMt] Email more than 2 days old being permanently deleted

[Antonio Leding]

“…I would would eagerly auto-expunge all of our users' trash 
mailboxes on an aggressive schedule…”

I predict the result would a sharp increase in the number of rules that, 
after 1d, move messages in Trash to a user-created folder named 
something like “trashSafeFromBill”…   :=)

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On 27 Nov 2020, at 13:44, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 27 Nov 2020, at 11:11, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> This sounds suspiciously like Antonio's issue of e-mail being removed 
>> from trash after 7 days and, hence, a server setting. Probably 
>> because people never get around to emptying the trash.
>
> I help manage mid-sized (SMB/SOHO outsourcing) mail systems and can 
> attest to the fact that some people seem to never empty their trash 
> mailboxes. For support purposes, if I could, I would would eagerly 
> auto-expunge all of our users' trash mailboxes on an aggressive 
> schedule (7 days seems good) if users would modify their behavior and 
> thinking to treat their trash mailboxes (and messages marked as 
> "Deleted" in regular mailboxes) as a short-term safeguard against 
> accidental deletion rather than as a permanent archive of mail that 
> isn't worth their effort to categorize.
>
> -- 
> Bill Cole
> bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
> (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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