Re: Mozilla Thunderbird query

John Fryatt wrote: 
Lobster wrote:

I've been using this for some months for news reading, however I'm finding that it's grinding to a halt due to the presence of zillions of old downloaded headers/messages which I can't get rid of. In Outlook Express you could just delete them, but do that in Thunderbird and it thinhks you're trying to 'cancel' them and raps your knuckles because you're trying to cancel someone else's posts.

What's the secret please? Ideally I'd like to have expired messages disappear automagically like OE used to; but even a way of doing it manually would be good!

Look under 'Tools / Account Settings / <your news account> / OffLine & Disk Space' - there are some settings there that should do what you're asking.

I'm sure I went in there months ago to try and tweak things. I have everything set like:
"do not download for offline use messages more than 30 days old"
"keep only message bodies >30 days old"
"keep messages which arrived within the last 30 days"

But my newsreader is clogged up with stuff going way back; eg this newgroup I have all the headers going back to May 2004 (about 5,000 of them). In uk.d-i-y, which I inhabit most, there are about 200,000 of them going back to the same date, and Thunderbird takes ages to sort through them and keeps crashing.

Do the settings under the submenu you've indicated only refer to whole messages, not headers or something?

Thanks
David
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