Cleaning up messages in WinMail

Vista Home Premium; Windows Mail all fully updated.

Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance - Delete news messages 31 days after
being downloaded ticked.

The other day I had to manually delete some 20,000 messages from 8
subscribed NGs, some going back to September. This function seems to be
erratic in operation.

Is there any other setting needing tweaking.

Also will Clean Up Now... tab remove ALL messages, or just the >31 days
ones.

This is the second time of asking and cross posted as my OP disappeared
without trace before anyone replied. (huh)

TIA gurus out there

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Delboy

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Hi,

It's always been that way with newsgroup message rules with Winmail and its
predecessor Outlook Express. They have to be manually applied periodically.
I agree that it should be automatic, but it isn't.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Delboy" <spamfree.delboy.hoy@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:sNednYsvi8a_8sPaRVnyigA@bt.com...
> Vista Home Premium; Windows Mail all fully updated.
>
> Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance - Delete news messages 31 days after
> being downloaded ticked.
>
> The other day I had to manually delete some 20,000 messages from 8
> subscribed NGs, some going back to September. This function seems to be
> erratic in operation.
>
> Is there any other setting needing tweaking.
>
> Also will Clean Up Now... tab remove ALL messages, or just the >31 days
> ones.
>
> This is the second time of asking and cross posted as my OP disappeared
> without trace before anyone replied. (huh)
>
> TIA gurus out there
>
> --
>
> Delboy
>
> A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
> completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
>
> Douglas Adams

Tks Rick. Looks like it's a DIY job once a month.

--

Delboy

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams
"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eDJire%23OIHA.4656@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> It's always been that way with newsgroup message rules with Winmail and
> its predecessor Outlook Express. They have to be manually applied
> periodically. I agree that it should be automatic, but it isn't.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Delboy" <spamfree.delboy.hoy@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:sNednYsvi8a_8sPaRVnyigA@bt.com...
>> Vista Home Premium; Windows Mail all fully updated.
>>
>> Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance - Delete news messages 31 days after
>> being downloaded ticked.
>>
>> The other day I had to manually delete some 20,000 messages from 8
>> subscribed NGs, some going back to September. This function seems to be
>> erratic in operation.
>>
>> Is there any other setting needing tweaking.
>>
>> Also will Clean Up Now... tab remove ALL messages, or just the >31 days
>> ones.
>>
>> This is the second time of asking and cross posted as my OP disappeared
>> without trace before anyone replied. (huh)
>>
>> TIA gurus out there
>>
>> --
>>
>> Delboy
>>
>> A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
>> completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
>>
>> Douglas Adams
>

Hi, Delboy.

Note that the setting is for 31 days after BEING DOWNLOADED. So a
2-year-old post that you downloaded just last week still has about 3 weeks
to go before WM deletes it from your hard drive. Not 31 days from when the
message was posted.

I have my WLM set to 35 days. In this vista.general NG, for example, I see
18,017 messages reported at this moment. The oldest one is dated 10/26/07,
but that started a thread with a reply on 11/11/07. The earliest OP is
dated 11/6/07 - 35 days ago.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Delboy" <spamfree.delboy.hoy@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:sNednYsvi8a_8sPaRVnyigA@bt.com...
> Vista Home Premium; Windows Mail all fully updated.
>
> Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance - Delete news messages 31 days after
> being downloaded ticked.
>
> The other day I had to manually delete some 20,000 messages from 8
> subscribed NGs, some going back to September. This function seems to be
> erratic in operation.
>
> Is there any other setting needing tweaking.
>
> Also will Clean Up Now... tab remove ALL messages, or just the >31 days
> ones.
>
> This is the second time of asking and cross posted as my OP disappeared
> without trace before anyone replied. (huh)
>
> TIA gurus out there
>
> --
>
> Delboy

Hi RCW,

Tks for the comment. I did realise the point you made. I am on line mostly
daily with only an occasional missed day so as far as I understand I should
have no postings much older than 31 days. When this function works, it seems
to work properly; I see threads with OPs gone and Re: subjects so posts have
been deleted. It's just a little temperamental it seems.

--

Delboy

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams
"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:uVz5VlAPIHA.4440@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Delboy.
>
> Note that the setting is for 31 days after BEING DOWNLOADED. So a
> 2-year-old post that you downloaded just last week still has about 3 weeks
> to go before WM deletes it from your hard drive. Not 31 days from when
> the message was posted.
>
> I have my WLM set to 35 days. In this vista.general NG, for example, I
> see 18,017 messages reported at this moment. The oldest one is dated
> 10/26/07, but that started a thread with a reply on 11/11/07. The
> earliest OP is dated 11/6/07 - 35 days ago.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
>
> "Delboy" <spamfree.delboy.hoy@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:sNednYsvi8a_8sPaRVnyigA@bt.com...
>> Vista Home Premium; Windows Mail all fully updated.
>>
>> Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance - Delete news messages 31 days after
>> being downloaded ticked.
>>
>> The other day I had to manually delete some 20,000 messages from 8
>> subscribed NGs, some going back to September. This function seems to be
>> erratic in operation.
>>
>> Is there any other setting needing tweaking.
>>
>> Also will Clean Up Now... tab remove ALL messages, or just the >31 days
>> ones.
>>
>> This is the second time of asking and cross posted as my OP disappeared
>> without trace before anyone replied. (huh)
>>
>> TIA gurus out there
>>
>> --
>>
>> Delboy
>