Mail auto-deleting messages?!

Hi friends,

I've had a mostly-smooth transition from my second gen iMac to a sparkly new MacBook, save for one thing: Mail is nuking messages in my inbox after a week. Gah! I need those!

One might think that these settings would be in Preferences>Mailbox Behaviors, but I'm at a loss. Virtual baked goods and eternal gratitude to anyone who can help.

TIA,
Lisa

 

Hi JAT,

It's mac.com mail. I know there are settings on webmail for how frequently to delete mail, but on my old iMac, the messages stayed in the application Mail until I tossed them, even if they were long gone from webmail. I would usually start purging through them when it got up to 400 messages or so, but I can't get more than a week's worth of mail accrued now on the new Book...

 

Thanks, JAT. Here's a pic of my mailbox behaviors in Preferences. Don't see anything about deleting messages in the Inbox... just from the trash, sent, etc.

 

Sure, here you go.

 

Okay, so to rephrase: are there any controls where you can set your inbox to automatically delete mail after a certain period of time (since I want to set that to "never")? Thanks!

 

Indeed I do, Mad Jew. At the risk of sounding thick, what do you suggest I try? The desktop that's also gathering my mail is keeping all the messages indefinately, while the macbook is purging them after a week...

THANKS!!

 

Hey Mad Jew... I went to the old iMac and changed mail's settings to not erase messages from the server after a week. I'm still running Mail 1.3.11 on that machine, so the preferences looked really different. Thanks for the tip; I'm keeping my fingers crossed!