471469 - Default settings delete precious emails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 356535

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Matthias Kempka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.18 (20081125)

I installed Thunderbird via Kubuntu 8.10 on a new system and shared an IMAP account.

I have (rather: had!) a never-delete policy on my email account that enables (rather: enabled!) me to find all my communication and communication partners I had since 2003.

A few days after installation I wondered why all emails are missing that date before November this year.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Matthias Kempka]

OK, that got filed a bit too fast, I was not quite finished:

Now I recognized that there is a setting in my account preferences that deletes all emails older than 20 (30, on another account) days. This setting definitely can't be set from me, I would never allow this.

This is definitely an unwanted default setting. For me, it destroyed irrevocably all my email from the past 5 years.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can't confirm this, the default setting in the account preferneces didn't have this pref set for me.

Do you use an original mozilla.org build ?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duping to bug 356535.