Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-11-23 Thread MAU
Hello Marck, > I have evidence of a message with a creation date in 1998 that > doesn't yet fit the 30 day retention criteria. So TB is clearly > using received date for purging information. Thanks for the confirmation :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v2

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-11-23 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Hi Mau, @23-Nov-2003, 19:39 +0100 (23-Nov 18:39 UK time) MAU [M] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: M> ,- [ Keep messages in the base for n days ] M> | The maximum age of a message allowed in the message base. If a message M> | is older than this, it will be automatically deleted

Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-11-23 Thread MAU
Hello all, In folder properties one can set for how long to keep messages. TB's help says: ,----- [ Keep messages in the base for n days ] | The maximum age of a message allowed in the message base. If a message | is older than this, it will be automatically deleted from the message | ba

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-16 Thread MAU
Hello Stefan, > Then you should park the threads you are interested in. This way, > messages won't get deleted by purging. No, parking is not the solution for what Paul (and others like me) is looking for. Parking is the solution if I want to keep the thread for ever (or a very long time), but th

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-16 Thread MAU
Hello Thomas, > I have set the expiration to 180 days. Haven't found a mailing-list > thread that ran longer than that... ;-) I set most my mailing list to just 15 or 30 days at the most. My message base would be huge if I set these to 180 days. As I say in my reply to Peter Meyns, I found this "

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-16 Thread MAU
Hello Peter, >>> Yes, indeed. It will mark the messages out of range as "deleted", and >>> with the next "Purge and compress" they will be actually deleted. > PR>> It strikes me this could be somewhat inconvenient. > > Why is that? My previous MUA had that capability. While there was at least one

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Paul, On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:19:54 +0100 GMT (16/08/2003, 04:19 +0700 GMT), Paul Richardson wrote: >> you could set your list folder to not expire messages at all > Better, IMO. Then I could copy or delete the entire thread "manually". I have set the expiration to 180 days. Haven't found

Re[2]: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Stefan Tanurkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good [morning|afternoon|day|evening|night] Paul, PR> It strikes me this could be somewhat inconvenient. Then you should park the threads you are interested in. This way, messages won't get deleted by purging. - -- Regards, Stefan ...Blessed is the end-use

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Paul Richardson
Peter Meyns wrote: > Why is that? TBH, I suppose mainly because my previous e-mail client did not split threads in this way; it wouldn't delete until the last message passed the sell-by date. > If I want to save a thread, I copy it to my "archive" > folder, and let the mailing list continue its

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Paul, on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:05:44 +0100GMT (15.08.03, 22:05 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : >> Yes, indeed. It will mark the messages out of range as "deleted", and >> with the next "Purge and compress" they will be actually deleted. PR> It strikes me this could be somew

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Paul Richardson
Peter Meyns wrote: > Yes, indeed. It will mark the messages out of range as "deleted", and > with the next "Purge and compress" they will be actually deleted. TVM It strikes me this could be somewhat inconvenient. -- Paul Richardson Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Servi

Re: Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Paul, on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:38:44 +0100GMT (15.08.03, 21:38 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : PR> If this setting is exceeded, will TB split an existing thread, PR> removing those that exceed it and keeping those that do not? Yes, indeed. It will mark the messages out of r

Keep messages in the base for n days

2003-08-15 Thread Paul Richardson
If this setting is exceeded, will TB split an existing thread, removing those that exceed it and keeping those that do not? Nothing in the Help file again. -- Paul Richardson Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3