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Re: [LUG] Icedove and mails older than 1 month

 

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.


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