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Is there a way in Mozilla Thunderbird to delete mail from the remote server and keep it locally?

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Mar 15, 20269741 views
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Is it possible to have Thunderbird delete mail from the server but leave it on your local disk? Ideally I'd like to be able set it up so that it will delete mail on the remote server under a certain number of days but keep it locally so I can reference it if need be. What would be even more awesome…

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You'll need to configure this per mail account. Head here: Tools > Account Settings > [account] > Server Settings In the Server Settings section that comes up, you'll see an option to delete from the server: Leave messages on server For at most [x] …

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