Archiving was turned on, but no folder was ever set. Where are the archived emails?
Finally convinced the wife to stop using webmail, and to begin using Thunderbird. I setup the pop3 account downloading all of the folders one by one, recreating the large folder structure.
Somehow, archiving was turned on. No folder was ever created for the messages to go to. Thunderbird states that the messages are going to the profile named "Personal". There is no "Archive" folder inside Personal.
Everything older than 60 days is now missing. These are emails going back 2001! Where did they get moved to?
Solution eye eponami
are you looking inside Thunderbird or in your file system for the archive? It's location is derived from the setting in Tools menu (Alt+T) > account settings > copies and folders.
While in account settings check the disk space entry and make sure you have not set it to delete messages over 60 days old.
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Solution eye oponami
are you looking inside Thunderbird or in your file system for the archive? It's location is derived from the setting in Tools menu (Alt+T) > account settings > copies and folders.
While in account settings check the disk space entry and make sure you have not set it to delete messages over 60 days old.
I am thinking about Archiving as the same thing as an Outlook Archive, meaning - a completely separate set of folders mirroring what is on the server. That isn't the case, is it?
And <major expletive>, you were right. The "Delete all mail older than 60 days" was set. In my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine ever setting that. I would not willingly delete my wife's message store of 14 years.
<Another major expletive>! Glad I air conditioned the dog house in June. Gotta start thinking about getting a heater. She may let him in, but this is gonna be home for a while.
Lou
Now we have a cause, try this add-on on the folders in question. If they have not been compacted you may not need that air conditioning
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html#recDelMsg
And Nope Thunderbirds view on archiving is not the same as Outlooks, sorry to say. Personally I made my own,
It is a bit tedious, but if your interested in setting up a dummy account to do archiving duties I will explain what I did. Moving Archives off the machine to a NAS was the original goal at it worked.