Lost emails

[gatehill]

I have found the folder as per your navigation, It contains some 25 emails from 2016 to 2022 and all the very recent ones. None of the ones I was hoping to find, however.

Whilst I consider myself reasonably computer literate I has never used IMAP before so didn't understand all its subtleties!  I can't seem to find a way of automatically deleting emails in the inbox after x days, only archiving them and hence removing them from the server.

One further question: I have set up quite a few storage folders in Outlook. Am I correct in assuming that these will not be reflected automatically in the BT server? I don't think they are - and hope not.

Thanks for all your help

[licquorice]

You can decide which folders are synced with the server.

[gg30340]

Did you check on your "old" PC for the POP3 folders?

I don't use Outlook so I could be wrong but as far as I am aware the email folders you have set up in Outlook IMAP will synchronise with the BT servers by default.

As regards deleting the emails after a certain time you could set up a rule to do this. To save having to talk you through how to do that, have a look at this link to see if it would meet your needs.  

https://superuser.com/questions/549565/deleting-emails-from-a-sender-after-x-days

Keep in mind unless you do as suggested by @licquorice  all your folders will be on and synchronised with the BT server unless you select not to synchronise with the server. 

It appears to me that you may be causing problems/stress/issues or what ever for yourself by using IMAP which is primarily for people using their email on more than one device and requiring each device to reflect the same as the other ones. ie send/receive/delete, folders and contents on one is shown as the same on the other devices.

If you do not need or want that facility you would be better to forget about using IMAP and go back to using a POP3 account. 

[licquorice]

I still can't see how the mails got deleted in the transition.

There's no setting to delete mails from the server within IMAP except deleting the mails by selecting and deleting, and if the mails were collected via POP3 they would still be on the PC with WLM.

How were you actually transferring the emails from the old PC?