I believe if you will read AOL's procedures regarding email, you'll find up to 27 days. While going thru my divorce and getting ready to relocate, my mailbox had perhaps 200 pieces of unread mail. By the time I got to where I was going, the only thing left in my mailbox was mail that was 27 days or newer. I lost some of my email addresses that I hadn't stored yet. I don't expect mail I've read to stay around longer than what I have marked...7 days. The mail that was really important to me, I had read...read and marked as "keep as new." It was in my new mail. It's not important any longer. My court date has come and gone....has it left a bad taste in my mouth towards AOL...you can bet it does. It's also my choice to leave or stay. Vicki JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 5/19/2005 8:49:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, skarlettebill@yahoo.com writes: I've written a complaint to AOL, and that's all I can do except make sure my mail doesn't remain in the mailbox for longer than 27 days. ---- Ok--if you are talking about UNREAD/NEW/INCOMING mail that you have not marked as READ by opening and reading it--AOL will keep that mail in your mailbox for up to 35 days. This has been the case as long as I've been with AOL and that's a pretty long time. The only catch is that if you receive mail that exceeds the limit--the newest mail will bounce. The limit is somewhere around 900-1000 messages depending on the size of those messages. They may have increased this amount in the newer AOL versions--I can't say because I generally don't keep that much unread mail. Once you read a message and it moves over to your already read/old mail -- then it is deleted after a couple days (or upon reaching a limit). The above is referring mail on AOL's server--not mail you have saved to your computer or saved on AOL. Joan ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== Keep informed of the latest news and new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the weekly RootsWeb Review. To subscribe, start here: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out!