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Feels weird to be one of those patronizing old farts, but: Thunderbird has nearly all of my emails since mid-2000s, including accounts that are dead for years.
by aasasd 4y ago
Feels weird to be one of those patronizing old farts, but: Thunderbird has nearly all of my emails since mid-2000s, including accounts that are dead for years.
- dmd 4y agoSame but my archive goes back to 1988, including some I carried over from Fidonet.
- distances 4y agoI just have all my emails since 1997 in my current email account. Every time I've changed providers, I've copied the old emails over to the new one as they've all had some POP3 functionality for import. I do still have my first email account from 1997 too, but it was an early free email service that got acquired by Yahoo so I was hit by this same Yahoo deletion policy at some point. Which didn't really matter as I had everything copied over to the next one anyway.
- Jaruzel 4y agoSame here, glad I'm not alone in this. When I explain to people I can search 25 years of personal email via my current inbox, they just look at me like I'm making it up. When I switched to a personal Exchange server about 15 years ago, I copied over all previous emails from a collection of legacy accounts, and then more recently I migrated the whole lot up to Exchange Online. I also converted and migrated in old mail messages from a DEC VMS system I used to be a SysAdmin on.