# DOes anybody know if yahoo mail is limiting the send messages folder to a month?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245 "2010-11-10T23:37:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245/1 "2010-11-10T23:37:16Z")

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I can’t find anything about it on line, But my yahoo account now only has about a months worth of messages in my sent folder. I’ve been keeping about 15 years of messages in there as an extra address book, and know it is all gone.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245/2 "2010-11-11T02:45:05Z")

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Mine goes back to when I created the account in 2006.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245/3 "2010-11-11T22:29:55Z")

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I just looked and I have sent items dating back to 2007. I’ve had my email address linger than that, but I’m not sure whether older ones were dumped by yahoo, or by me.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-if-yahoo-mail-is-limiting-the-send-messages-folder-to-a-month/560245/4 "2010-11-11T22:57:51Z")

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i’ve got email from the last century when we tied onions to our belts, which was the style at the time.