any way to limit size of 'junk e-mail' folder?

[invader]

Mine has grown to about 40,000 messages. I don't want to nuke the whole thing
because you never know if something important has found its way there. I'd
like to limit it to either a fixed number of messages (10,000) or a fixed
number of days (30 days).

Any way to do this? I don't see a setting anywhere in Windows Mail.

 

[DP]

Do you plan to go through those messages at some point to look for
"something important"?
If so, maybe now is the time to start. If you don't plan to do that, then
any method of limiting the number of messages or the lifespan of the message
will wind up nuking messages you haven't looked at yet, anyway.
I guess I'm just confused by your logic.

One thing you can do is go into that folder, set it up so that the messages
are listed by the address of the sender. And if you have 500 messages from,
say, Cialis4life.com, then you can select them all and delete them. And then
just repeat the process again and again. That will take a bunch out.
After you've done that, you can arrange the messages by subject line and see
if there's a bunch you can kill that way.
Maybe there is a way to do what you're asking and I'm sure someone will tell
you soon. But if not, the method I suggest above will help you winnow out
the things you really don't need.

 

[mikeyhsd]

you are supposed to review them atleast occasionally.

a little late.

might look over a couple thousand a day till you are done. then review them occasionally.



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Mine has grown to about 40,000 messages. I don't want to nuke the whole thing
because you never know if something important has found its way there. I'd
like to limit it to either a fixed number of messages (10,000) or a fixed
number of days (30 days).

Any way to do this? I don't see a setting anywhere in Windows Mail.

 

[invader]

Do you plan to go through those messages at some point to look for

"something important"?

The only reason I want to keep them around for 30 days is so that I can
search them.

For example, if I was expecting to hear back from someone (or I get a message
from someone asking why I never replied to them), I can do a quick search and
see if it was mistakingly junked.

 

[invader]

you are supposed to review them atleast occasionally.

At 40,000 messages in 3 months, that's about 450 messages per day. Far more
than I care to look through every day. No, I just want to be able to retain
the last 30 days worth of them for search purposes in case something
important got inadvertantly junked.

 

[Julian]

At 40,000 messages in 3 months, that's about 450 messages per day. Far
more
than I care to look through every day. No, I just want to be able to
retain
the last 30 days worth of them for search purposes in case something
important got inadvertantly junked.

That sounds like a heavily compromised email address you have there.
If I were you I'd set up a new email address, probably an umber-versatile
one like Gmail (accessible however and where ever you need) and begin
migrating your activity to it.

 

[Jay Somerset]

That sounds like a heavily compromised email address you have there.
If I were you I'd set up a new email address, probably an umber-versatile
one like Gmail (accessible however and where ever you need) and begin
migrating your activity to it.

There is another solution, which I use and have found really effective.

I have an account at POBOX.COM which has had the same email address for over
10 years. Highly "compromised" as noted above.

POBOX offers both a *very effective* spam blocking service and email
forwarding to the ISP of your choice. I use a randomly-generated numeric
email address with the ISP (something like (e-mail address removed)) which
after a year or so has attracted ZERO spam! POBOX forwards all non-spam
email to that "unadvertised" address. Email recognized as spam, but from
legitimate email addresses is "help" on POBOX's server, and I get notified
daily/weekly/whatever (my choice) of its existence. I can go into POBOX via
WebMail to discover any false positives, and have them released and/or
whitelisted.

POBOX also lets you "reject" emails that meet your preset criteria, such as
originating from Kazakhstan, or Nigeria, or wherever, or from blacklisted
sites, or even from "broadband machines" (not connected via a recognizable
ISP.

The whole system, with a little bit of training, works really well.

I can heartily recommend POBOX.COM as a solution here (and I have no vested
interest in the company). The cost is nominal -- $15 or $25 a year,
depending on the level of service desired. I use the full "mailstore"
service myself.