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gardenweed · 19 Nov 2019, 07:18 AM

There has been some confusion over how the auto-purge works for some time.
The question as to whether the auto-purge is based on the date one moves an email to Trash, or the date of the actual email, seems to come up every now and then.

For my own account, I have set the auto-purge in my Trash folder to 365 days.
The oldest email I have in my Trash folder is dated 18-Nov-2018, except some older pinned emails also are retained.
So for me the auto-purge appears to act on the date of the email, rather than when it was deleted.

Some other recent threads on the same subject are here:

19 Nov 2019, 07:18 AM	#9
gardenweed Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Perth Posts: 664	There has been some confusion over how the auto-purge works for some time. The question as to whether the auto-purge is based on the date one moves an email to Trash, or the date of the actual email, seems to come up every now and then. For my own account, I have set the auto-purge in my Trash folder to 365 days. The oldest email I have in my Trash folder is dated 18-Nov-2018, except some older pinned emails also are retained. So for me the auto-purge appears to act on the date of the email, rather than when it was deleted. Some other recent threads on the same subject are here: https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=74084 https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=74544