01-13-2009, 05:30 PM
Article Accelerator wrote:
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You could opt to use a real mail client. In Entourage, I just set a schedule to periodically delete items in the trash older than (in my case) two weeks.
I tried a real email client once. Twelve minutes after the automatic scheduled emptying, I realized I needed one of those deleted messages. It was tragic.
In the default configuration in both apps, you should get an alert before the messages are deleted. If you disabled the alert or clicked to dismiss it, that's your own fault.
Also, in Thunderbird deleted mail remains in the database until the db is optimized/compressed. There are plugins for it that take advantage of this to allow the user to recover deleted mail.