> On or about 6/20/2005 11:18 AM chris AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] eruditely mused > the following:
>I noticed that when I quit Emailer, it no longer deletes >>the older messages like it used to. > >Check to be sure your system clock is set correctly. It decides what is >old enough based on the date on your system clock. And although I don't >think they can be different, verify that OS 9 in Classic is reporting the >same date as OS X. Checked both and they are both correct. Good try. > >Also, have you checked to see what it isn't deleting? How far off are the >messages from your cutoff date. ie: If the messages are supposed to be >deleted after 30 days, what is the newest message waiting to be deleted? >31 days? 60 days? 90 days? 4 years? I'm curious if Emailer has some >maximum distance date it will look at. Maybe it won't acknowledge >anything over 6 months (just plucking a random date out of the air as an >example). Since you rarely quit Emailer, and it only does this processing >when it is quit, maybe everything you have rolled beyond whatever its >maximum date distance is. I normally set it to delete Deleted Mail folder messages after 25 days and currently have mail going back to May 2 - 46 days. The newest messages set for deletion are 26 days old. In the past I never noticed that CE had a limit on deletion time as I occasionally put messages into the Deleted Mail folder after several years and once CE was quit they disappeared, so I don't think there is any time limit. > >>If I throw the Emailer preference file away, please remind me exactly >>what information it holds, so I know what to record for reentering, so I >>can try that option. > >The prefs file stores anything in the Setup Menu -> Preferences. That is >about it. Mail actions, accounts, schedules, all that stuff is kept in >their own files (accounts are kept in the Mail Database). Thanks for that info. Cheers Karl ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
