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Automatically delete emails that older than 60 days

Allow individuals to set a time after which emails would be deleted, i.e. 60 days.

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  • Sanford commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very needed function. It is horribly time consuming to delete old mail page by page. We desperately need a way to delete old mail prior to a specified date. Otherwise, old mail tends to pile up by the thousands! This feature would surely help your servers as much as ours.

  • Rae-Ann Fugate commented  ·   ·  Report

    I want to delete last year's emails because anything I want to keep I put in a folder. I have 4,000+ emails. I want an easy way to delete them for 2018.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    How can I recover an email sent to me in March? I’ve asked AOL are they’re not interested! I did not delete it so it must be there somewhere!

  • Mary M Rutledge commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have over 7700 emails and if I could just pul them up a page at a time and hit the select all key and delete everything below it only on that page, I could clear this issue. However it selects everything from the current date down as well. Help!?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    stop this I will delete when I decide to

  • SPM commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree - I manually delete emails 100 at a time (max. allowed per page) using select all box at the top of the column. It would be better to set a time lapse for auto-delete and allow that as a Setting.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Old mail use to be in the folder for months and now only a few days.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    AOL stinks !!! As soon as I read an email it is deleted how can I fix that????? I cannot retrieve old mail because it only stays in the box one day an it is gone forever......

  • Patsy commented  ·   ·  Report

    AOL IS THE WORST! I can't delete the remaining 25,000 plus emails of my original 32,000 because when I click the box to select them all then click on the trash can icon, it comes up EVERY TIME that an Error occurred and it can't delete the emails. The only option it gives is to click OK and then I try several times after that and its the same **** thing! Over time I have accrued all these **** emails and unless I want to homestead on my computer until I DIE OF OLD AGE, I'm stuck with these **** things and can't get rid of them and there are MORE ADDED EVERY **** DAY!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    The worst email client ever.....Impossible to delete multiple emails at the same time

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is there a way, or could a way be provided, to have an option to automatically delete emails from the Trash folder when they reach a specified age?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I recently discovered all my AOL trashed emails are deleting, though on my Mac I have the preferences set to never delete and my trashed emails go back years. I got a customer care service person who hung up on me, who said this is not possible to change, but then I see online that one can email AOL and they may be able to help. She was saying AOL always deletes them after a week, only this is new for me.

  • Annette Tutera commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please do not delete "read emails" I'd like to look back at least 1 yr. How do I change this?

  • K. Misenor commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have over 5000 unread mails that I would like to delete so I can retrieve some disk space back. I average 3-4 pages of new mail a day. Please offer GOOD suggestions.

  • BostonHollyandSnoop commented  ·   ·  Report

    I create folders and store everything in those folders. It seems to be working.

  • Andrew commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. The Trash folder used to automatically delete emails in it after a week I believe. Now it doesn't do that at all.

  • Judith Gregory commented  ·   ·  Report

    Have a setting to Automatically delete emails after specified time set by user

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