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  • no message number limit, purge by date only

    From waldo kitty@1:3634/50 to All on Sun Jun 18 09:57:48 2017

    when setting up message areas, how do we indicate that we don't care about the number of messages in an area? does zero in the maximum messages field indicate zero messages or don't care about this number? we're kinda used to other mail management software using -1 to indicate don't care and zero means exactly that, zero messages...

    currently we've set areas to 20000 with a purge of 731 days but we really don't care about the number of messages... only the 731 days so we're trying to figure out what to change the 20000 to... we've tried deleting the number in the field and leaving it blank but when we hit enter to leave the field, it is automatically filled with zero... a new record doesn't have anything in this field so we're confused as to how to return this field to an empty state...
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to waldo kitty on Tue Jun 20 19:01:12 2017
    Re: no message number limit, purge by date only
    By: waldo kitty to All on Sun Jun 18 2017 09:57 am

    when setting up message areas, how do we indicate that we don't care about the number of messages in an area?

    Set the "maximum message" value to 0.

    does zero in the maximum messages field
    indicate zero messages or don't care about this number?

    Precisely.

    digital man

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