A way to make our inbox lighter having offline only newer messages

[tino27100]

My personal account has almost 20 years, company one more than 15, I have also a shared one for work, dedicated to be flooded with automatic notficaition. Results? 20GB of local data between all mailboxes.

Since I have the options compact mailbox automatically enabled it happens often (one per hour more or less) I starte to tune a little my inbox and my folders. Starting to se to limit sync only to 30 days to have complete message until a month, but it doesn't fix a lot to be honest.

So I started to dig in folder's properties to better understand if am I missing something. I found a couple of things there:
- use account settings
- make this folder available offiline (translation not super accurate, I'm using TB in italian, just guessing the english)
- restore folder

I just want to have a quicker and lighter email client.

A suggestion could be a unified option, in both account wizard and setting "keep offline only messages of the last 30/60/90 days, other will be cleaned of, only subject remains, the message will be downloaded on demand (and cleaned in a while if not opened)"

In addition a common RESET button in account settings could be useful to delete all local data and downloaded from scratch if something get stuck.

[Jon]

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