Hi,
this may be a stupid question so I apologise in advance, but I have read through the FAQs and had a flick through here and cannot find an answer yet.
I have just started using AquaMail and added my hotmail account to it - this account has nearly 50,000 emails on it and I do not want all of the old ones to be in AquaMail as that seems a little excessive, but I cannot work out how to get it to display only the most recent ones?
I have tried a long press on the email account followed by Options and Folders and clicked the little spanner and changed 'Messages to keep' to up to 250, but it made no difference? Any ideas?
Thanks
Using IMAP, I think the messages to keep are not those on the server, but the ones to keep in the app. You can still (or should be able to) make a search for stuff that is no longer in aquamail but is on the server. The right hand figure next to the account is the number on the server, the left one is the unread count (I think). Pretty sure it does not tell you how many are in the app, except in the smart folder, which seems to show the count of complete messages (including bodies) in the smart folder, but not the server count (because smart folder aggregates potentially many accounts together).
There are two settings. One decides how many headers are kept in the app, the other how many bodies. The 250 probably applies to headers. You may have as few as 25 bodies per account, which you can find out by going into aircraft mode and then trying to scroll past that number.
The app tidies up older messages than the 250 you mention, but does not delete on the server.
If you scroll through messages in a single account, it goes so far, then you see 'loading' while it fetches from the server. With the patience of Job you can go through the whole 50000 like that, I believe.
Keeping only so many in the app saves memory, but arguably costs network traffic, as emails maybe fetched more than once.
Someone put me right if I have misunderstood this.....
