I'm losing newsgroup posts.

[JohnD]

Hello all,

Today I had a need to find some questions and responses that I'd sent to and
received from, some of the MS newsgroups (including this one). It seems that
Vista Mail has auto-magically deleted a large number of old newsgroup
messages that I had previously downloaded to my machine, so I've lost that
history. I've been through all the dialog boxes I could find and I cannot
find any "delete downloaded news messages after ...." option.

Odder still, if I use the Mail search tool to find messages, it finds some.
If I then go back to the message viewer, that gets refreshed and the search
"hits" disappear from the found items dialog.

Are old messages actually being deleted from the MS servers somewhere and my
local cache is then being kept up to date by deleting the old messages?

So the question is, "How do I prevent Vista Mail from deleting old newsgroup
messages?".

Thanks in advance,

John.

 

[Dave]

You can have WM automatically delete old posts after a certain time... but I
don't think it's enabled by default....
Tools - Options - Advanced - Maintenance
[x] Purge newsgroup messages in the background
[x] Delete news messages [xx] days after being downloaded

If you don't want the messages deleted, uncheck one or both of these options

 

[JohnD]

Hi Dave,

That option is currently UNCHECKED, so I don't think that's the problem.

/john

You can have WM automatically delete old posts after a certain time... but
I don't think it's enabled by default....
Tools - Options - Advanced - Maintenance
[x] Purge newsgroup messages in the background
[x] Delete news messages [xx] days after being downloaded

If you don't want the messages deleted, uncheck one or both of these
options


--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Hello all,

Today I had a need to find some questions and responses that I'd sent to
and received from, some of the MS newsgroups (including this one). It
seems that Vista Mail has auto-magically deleted a large number of old
newsgroup messages that I had previously downloaded to my machine, so
I've lost that history. I've been through all the dialog boxes I could
find and I cannot find any "delete downloaded news messages after ...."
option.

Odder still, if I use the Mail search tool to find messages, it finds
some. If I then go back to the message viewer, that gets refreshed and
the search "hits" disappear from the found items dialog.

Are old messages actually being deleted from the MS servers somewhere and
my local cache is then being kept up to date by deleting the old
messages?

So the question is, "How do I prevent Vista Mail from deleting old
newsgroup messages?".

Thanks in advance,

John.

 

[Dave]

That's the only setting that I know of that will delete messages
automatically.

The only other thing I can think of is, perhaps the view is set to "hide
read messages", but that would hide all messages after you've read them.
View - Current View - Show All Messages

( or change the view in the pull-down box on the toolbar).
Each folder can be set this way...

--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Hi Dave,

That option is currently UNCHECKED, so I don't think that's the problem.

/john

You can have WM automatically delete old posts after a certain time...
but I don't think it's enabled by default....
Tools - Options - Advanced - Maintenance
[x] Purge newsgroup messages in the background
[x] Delete news messages [xx] days after being downloaded

If you don't want the messages deleted, uncheck one or both of these
options


--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Hello all,

Today I had a need to find some questions and responses that I'd sent to
and received from, some of the MS newsgroups (including this one). It
seems that Vista Mail has auto-magically deleted a large number of old
newsgroup messages that I had previously downloaded to my machine, so
I've lost that history. I've been through all the dialog boxes I could
find and I cannot find any "delete downloaded news messages after ...."
option.

Odder still, if I use the Mail search tool to find messages, it finds
some. If I then go back to the message viewer, that gets refreshed and
the search "hits" disappear from the found items dialog.

Are old messages actually being deleted from the MS servers somewhere
and my local cache is then being kept up to date by deleting the old
messages?

So the question is, "How do I prevent Vista Mail from deleting old
newsgroup messages?".

Thanks in advance,

John.

 

[JohnD]

Hi Dave,

Nope, not that either, it's set to "Show All Messages".

/john

That's the only setting that I know of that will delete messages
automatically.

The only other thing I can think of is, perhaps the view is set to "hide
read messages", but that would hide all messages after you've read them.
View - Current View - Show All Messages

( or change the view in the pull-down box on the toolbar).
Each folder can be set this way...

--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Hi Dave,

That option is currently UNCHECKED, so I don't think that's the problem.

/john

You can have WM automatically delete old posts after a certain time...
but I don't think it's enabled by default....
Tools - Options - Advanced - Maintenance
[x] Purge newsgroup messages in the background
[x] Delete news messages [xx] days after being downloaded

If you don't want the messages deleted, uncheck one or both of these
options


--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview


Hello all,

Today I had a need to find some questions and responses that I'd sent
to and received from, some of the MS newsgroups (including this one).
It seems that Vista Mail has auto-magically deleted a large number of
old newsgroup messages that I had previously downloaded to my machine,
so I've lost that history. I've been through all the dialog boxes I
could find and I cannot find any "delete downloaded news messages after
...." option.

Odder still, if I use the Mail search tool to find messages, it finds
some. If I then go back to the message viewer, that gets refreshed and
the search "hits" disappear from the found items dialog.

Are old messages actually being deleted from the MS servers somewhere
and my local cache is then being kept up to date by deleting the old
messages?

So the question is, "How do I prevent Vista Mail from deleting old
newsgroup messages?".

Thanks in advance,

John.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Were these posts more than 90 days old? If they were, and you synced, got
more headers or reset the group, they are gone. MSNews only keeps them on
the server for 90 days and WinMail only mirrors what is on the server.

If you want to save messages, you need to copy them to a local folder.

If you have enough information, you will be able to find them in a Goggle
archive.
http://groups.google.com:80/advanced_search?q=&ie=UTF-8

 

[JohnD]

That'll be it Bruce I'm sure. I thought the sync process did just that
though, copied the messages to a permanent local folder, I do have my sync
settings set to "All Messages".

/john

 

[JohnD]

Also Bruce, Google did find the original messages. Thanks for that idea.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

You're welcome.