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Keith Abraham wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > >> Keith Abraham wrote: >> >>> All my Icedove folders only show mails less than 1 month old. >>> >>> It isn't that the older mails are missing, they aren't as I can >>> view them with a text editor. Nor are any user message filters >>> preventing them from being displayed. >>> >>> I seems just as if some display preference has been set at >>> 30 days, but if there is one I can't find it. I'm probably >>> missing something incredibly simple but can anyone tell me >>> how to show these older mails? >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> >> Have you got your messages sorted by date and grouped? On my >> Thunderbird setup here it then has a group called "old mail". >> >> >> > > Grant: > All mails are sorted by date - oldest to newest. > > I'm not sure what you mean by grouped. There is no folder > called old mail on my system. > > Using message filters I organise incoming mails into named > folders eg my-ISP, my-Village. The inbox folder is kept > under control with another filter which deletes all mails > which have not been moved into folders and are older that > 30 days. > > Some of my folders contain mails which date back to the > beginning of the year yet when I open the folder the mails > aren't listed. All that is displayed are mails less than a > month old. I know they exist because I can enter > /.mozilla-thunderbird and view them with a text editor > > As I said in my earlier mail it's as if there was a > blanket setting limiting the display of all mails to > those under a month old. > > I've scoured the preferences to no avail. The solution > probably lies in the config editor but I don't know what > I'm looking for. > > Keith Hi Keith, By "group", I mean this - go to a folder and click on the "view" menu; in the "sort by" submenu, check to see if "grouped by sort group" is ticked. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html