[Dovecot] My old email is not stored

[Urban Loesch]

Hi,

perhaps you are using POP3 in your mail client and have you have enabled the setting to
delete mails on server after a few months.

Change to IMAP and you leave all messages on the server.

reagards
urban



On 10.04.2013 11:20, HylkeB wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im have not much experience with dovecot, postfix or debian, which i am
> using for my email server.
>
> But the thing is, everything worked just fine, until I found out that old
> emails were missing, only emails of a few months old exist on my server. I
> have no idea if this is a setting in dovecot, postfix or debian, or that
> something weird happened.
>
> But my question is, is there a setting in either dovecot, postfix or debian
> that i should check that could cause this behaviour, and if so, how do i
> check that? (opening and checking a conf file for example, or executing some
> commands in PuTTy).
>
> And if this is somehow default behaviour that cannot be changed, is there
> some other way to store all emails ever entered my inbox?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Hylke Bron
>
>
>
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