{"id":165,"date":"2019-07-30T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=165"},"modified":"2022-09-27T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:34:19","slug":"how-can-i-configure-thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/how-can-i-configure-thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I configure Thunderbird so that emails will be deleted on the server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you configure the email client via IMAP connection all emails deleted on Thunderbird will be deleted on the server as soon as you close Thunderbird. Therefore, if you are using the IMAP protocol, this article does not concern you. If you are using pop3, you can limit retention on the server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is your mailbox already full? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-delete-messages-if-my-mailbox-is-full-via-webmail-basic-mail\/\">Then first delete redundant emails via webmail<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Follow these steps in Thunderbird<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Follow right click on your email address to your left.<\/li>\n<li>Choose &#8220;Settings&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-can-I-configure-Thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server-EN_1.png\" alt=\"Right click on email address > settings&#8221; width=&#8221;219&#8243; height=&#8221;195&#8243;><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-can-I-configure-Thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server-EN_2.png\" alt=\"Account settings\" width=\"646\" height=\"699\"><\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Server Settings&#8221; from the menu to your left.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1986 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-can-I-configure-Thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server-EN_3.png\" alt=\"Server settings\" width=\"646\" height=\"699\"><\/li>\n<li>Customize the &#8220;Leave Messages On Server&#8221; option.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1987 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/How-can-I-configure-Thunderbird-so-that-emails-will-be-deleted-on-the-server-EN_4.png\" alt=\"Leave messages on server\" width=\"220\" height=\"71\"><\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;OK&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you configure the email client via IMAP connection all emails deleted on Thunderbird will be deleted on the server as soon as you close Thunderbird. Therefore, if you are using the IMAP protocol, this article does not concern you. If you are using pop3, you can limit retention on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[33],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/165\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}