question about IceDove
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Does anyone know how to to set IceDove to delete emails older than X months from the server/webmail, but keep those emails in IceDove's Inbox on my computer?
What you're describing is actually the default behavior of IceDove with POP3. It something I always forget to disable; I don't want my emails sitting on the mailserver after they've been delivered to me. Anyway, it's under Account Settings->Server Settings, the "Leave messages on server" option.
Note that this is only possible with POP3, unless I'm mistaken.
My email provider uses IMAP. I can't find the option to leave (or not leave) emails on the server. I looked in Account Settings --> Server Settings.
Yesterday, I set my email settings to delete messages more than 1 day old. I set the "Local Folders Disk Space" to never delete any messages (default ... left it alone). Today, my emails (nothing important) disappeared from my webmail as scheduled, but all those same emails disappeared from my local inbox too.
I want to empty my webmail inbox periodically, and to keep all those emails on my IceDove inbox for my own records. I've been reading the IceDove Account Settings ... but I just can't figure this out =/.
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The local inbox always synchronizes with the webmail. If I delete an email from either place, the email gets deleted everywhere (whether I use the POP3 port or the IMAP port).
I'd like to keep a local copy always, and delete the webmail emails once in a while (hopefully automatically) to make sure that I don't run out of storage space.
Using a different port isn't what you need to do. You need to switch to actually using POP3; the easiest way is to create a new "account", same email address, but choose POP3 instead of IMAP. If your mail host doesn't allow you to use POP3 (note: this is quite uncommon these days, AFAIK, so check rather than assuming), I'm afraid the only way you can do what you want is to switch to another mail host.
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