On 11/8/04 12:52 AM, Tyrone Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, I know this is a CE list, but just wanted any of you who have > been considering switching to OSX Mail to retrieve your AOL mail to > know that, for some reason, all email older than about 7 days gets > deleted from your inbox in Mail, read or not. I've been messing around > with it for a little while and have pretty much confirmed that this is > happening. The Apple Store folk are at a loss, and there's nothing I > could find on the Apple Support site that mentions this. It looks > like Mail automatically synchronizes with the mail on the AOL server > and I think they trash it after about a week or so. No fix or > workaround I know of, other than moving anything you want to save to > a new folder.
This is the way AOL has always worked, and it is well-documented in my AOL IMAP Guide. http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/ A Rule can be easily created to download all messages to a local folder, thus mimicking a POP3 account. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lull.org/adam/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
