Synchronise the most recent (number of days) not working
"Synchronise the most recent" setting (Settings -> Account settings -> Synchronisation and storage -> Synchronise the most recent)
I am having trouble with the synchronization setting. I have an email address with a large number of emails coming through the IMAP server.To avoid overloading the computer, I want to download only the emails from the last month to the computer. I found the 'Synchronize the most recent' setting under Settings -> Account settings -> Synchronization and storage. Thunderbird downloads all email from the server regardless of the number of days specified. Can anyone assist me with this issue?
Izbrana rešitev
This setting means it initially fully downloads full copies of the last 5 days, but it will only download headers for all the other days. Meaning you still see all emails in Message List, so you can still access them, but those that are just headers will need to access server inorder to download to a temp cache inorder to read them.
As the days continue those emails previously fully downloaded are still fully downloaded, so you need to compact the folders so they remove the fully downloaded emails and replace with just headers.
This means you only keep 5 days worth of fully downloaded mail, thus reducing the amount of space on computer used for fully downloaded copies.
It also depends what you have selected in the 'Message sychronising' 'Advanced' button setting.
EG: If you have selected all your folders to download full copies, then the above settings will download the 5 days and headers for others. If you have any folders not selected to download full copies then you will never get fully downloaded copies for the emails in those folders - just headers get downloaded.
At this point you need to check what folders are set up to download full copies. Then compact all folders so they remove the fully downloaded copies and replace those older than 5 days with just headers. Restart Thunderbird to ensure everything is properly saved in files.
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Izbrana rešitev
This setting means it initially fully downloads full copies of the last 5 days, but it will only download headers for all the other days. Meaning you still see all emails in Message List, so you can still access them, but those that are just headers will need to access server inorder to download to a temp cache inorder to read them.
As the days continue those emails previously fully downloaded are still fully downloaded, so you need to compact the folders so they remove the fully downloaded emails and replace with just headers.
This means you only keep 5 days worth of fully downloaded mail, thus reducing the amount of space on computer used for fully downloaded copies.
It also depends what you have selected in the 'Message sychronising' 'Advanced' button setting.
EG: If you have selected all your folders to download full copies, then the above settings will download the 5 days and headers for others. If you have any folders not selected to download full copies then you will never get fully downloaded copies for the emails in those folders - just headers get downloaded.
At this point you need to check what folders are set up to download full copies. Then compact all folders so they remove the fully downloaded copies and replace those older than 5 days with just headers. Restart Thunderbird to ensure everything is properly saved in files.
Spremenil Toad-Hall