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Retain sent Mail messages for a specific number of days
Authored by: wsdr on Aug 15, '03 01:52:53PM

I took this one step further and edited the actual preferences screen using Interface Builder (part of developer tools). I made a copy of Mail and went and found the correct screen, added a new item to the relevant pull down menu (menus in my case). The value associated with those particular preferences are expressed in number of days-- I wanted six months, so put in 180 days as the value.

After editing Mail, I went into the prefs and there were my new values-- I changed them, looked in the prefs file and sure enough, the new values were there. And Mail obeys them.

Why do this instead of the other? If you edit the prefs file directly, any time you edit the preferences for the account using Mails interface, you will find that the values may change.

Of course, this won't survive an update.

I use this for Trash and Sent mail. Works great.



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