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Email Retention
- Thread starter Eldogg
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Rukbat
Extreme Android User
Period to sync email means "how often should I check with the server to see if there's any new email?" For most personal accounts, 30 minutes is good enough. If it's a business account and your boss is a bit OCD, 1 minute, or even 10 seconds, might be better.
You're checking for new emils once a month.
The "retention time" is set by few things. On a POP3 account, if the email program is set to remove emails from the server, they're deleted as soon as you receive them on your phone. It it's set to not delete them, they stay there until a) you manually delete them or b) the time set in the email server passes and they're auto-deleted.
On an IMAP account, there's no "leave emails on server" - that's automatic. Either you delete them or they delete after whatever time the server is set to delete them.
(On an Exchange server, it's more complicated. I won't say that it depends on the phase of the moon, but I've known some very strange Exchange administrators. I'll just say BOFH for those who've known some.)
You're checking for new emils once a month.
The "retention time" is set by few things. On a POP3 account, if the email program is set to remove emails from the server, they're deleted as soon as you receive them on your phone. It it's set to not delete them, they stay there until a) you manually delete them or b) the time set in the email server passes and they're auto-deleted.
On an IMAP account, there's no "leave emails on server" - that's automatic. Either you delete them or they delete after whatever time the server is set to delete them.
(On an Exchange server, it's more complicated. I won't say that it depends on the phase of the moon, but I've known some very strange Exchange administrators. I'll just say BOFH for those who've known some.)
Not an Exchange server - it's Verizon email. It's POP3. The email is set to be retained on the server and I have not been deleting them. However, all of this is not relevant to the retention period on the phone.
I'm guessing that the Samsung Galaxy S3 just isn't capable of email retention beyond one week and has no way to control this. There is no other setting that I have been able to locate that controls it.
OK, thank you. I will continue to look further into it.
FishenFool
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In the account settings inside of email settings what is the recent messages settings set at?
I have 2 pop and 1 imap accounts on my s3. I delete e-mails from the in box every day. The e-mails remain on the phone in the trash folder until I delete them from that folder. I have had up to 6 months and 2500 e-mails on the phone before I deleted them. Don't remember ever having to adjust any settings for this setup.
FishenFool
Well-Known Member
As long as you have IMAP access setup on the mail server you can. I use IMAP as much as possible because it handles multiple devices accessing your mail much better than POP3 can.