FabSwingers.com forum: Sent mail

By *ausonbou OP Man
over a year ago

South Wales

Is it me or does any other member find their sent mail box is being deleted over time. Even though you have not deleted the message. I know I've sent a fair few but now only have 3 messages unread in the box.

Can anybody help.

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im sure the site delete messages after a while to free up space"

The site does remove old messages especially if the account is not used for a while.

Quoted from the FAQ:

I've not logged on for a while and now most of my messages have been deleted / I have loads of messages in my inbox and some of the older ones have gone missing

Fab is a super busy site. Hundreds of thousands of private mails are sent every day and we have tens of millions of such messages on our system. Because we do this mostly for free, we can't keep all the messages for ever because our costs would go up and up and the site would get slower and slower. Older messages that have already been read in "dormant" accounts that haven't been logged into for a while are removed from the system. Similarly if you have loads of mails in your inbox, the system will periodically remove some of the oldest.

If some mails are important to you and you want to make sure they're not deleted, become a site supporter and save any important mails to your "saved message folder" (look for "save it" on the bottom of messages you receive) and we'll keep those mails on the system (unless we screw things up and they get deleted too; but we'll try not to!).