Re: 'recycling bin'

On 22 Jul 2016 Richard Porter  wrote:

> On 22 Jul 2016 Philip Draper  wrote:

>> I occasionally find that I have deleted emails rather hastily;
>> too-late second thoughts suggest I ought to have kept them for a bit.
>> But the MPro deletion system seems to be rather final.

> Eh? You can set an expiry time on the waste basket. I think the
> default is 3 days but you can make it longer.

[snip]

> . I prefer to do it manually via the icon bar menu (Utilitues
>> Expire old groups) when it's convenient.

I meant 'Expire old messages' of course.

> As a backstop, if you've deleted a message and it's expired you might
> still be able to find it in the backup directory. In my case it's
> <POPstar$Dir>.MailDir.spool.mail.backup . NB it needs purging from
> time to time. I don't know what the equivalent is for Hermes.

Actually the backup file is specified in my !SpamStamp config so I 
guess it will only pick up defaulted messages and not those accepted 
or diverted by !AntiSpam which go straight to MPro.

-- 
Richard Porter                        http://www.minijem.plus.com/
Skype: minijem2                       mailto:ricp@...
I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

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