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    From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Apr 14 21:03:18 2021
    Hi DM,

    I'm currently running a SYnchronet build from January 23rd (I thought I had updated more recently, but I guess not). I had at least 15-20 personal emails in my email box on my BBS, but when I went to check tonight, it was down to only about 8 (some of which were spam that came in recently). Do personal emails in Synchronet automatically get deleted after a certain amount of time?

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Thu Apr 15 09:22:22 2021
    Re: Personal emails deleted
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Apr 15 2021 09:21 am

    Re: Personal emails deleted
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Apr 15 2021 08:24 am

    Re: Personal emails deleted
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Apr 14 2021 10:05 pm

    Old e-mail will be deleted if you have SCFG->Message Options->Purge E-mail by Age set to Enabled.

    I have that option disabled. I'm not sure why most of my old emails were deleted.

    You should have auto-backups of your mail base saved as data/mail.#.*. Using smbutil to examine the back-up before the deletion (e.g. "smbutil v mail.0.shd") may help to illuminate why.

    Also use "smbutil s" to confirm the max_age value is set to 0 on that mail base.
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