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