Network drive to store old emails

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I use gmail and have a small nas and would like to redirect “deleted” emails to that nas as gmail will automatically purge these emails after a certain period of time.

Deleted is probably not the right connotation for these emails but rather ones that you really don’t need right now and the delete key moves them off the screen. If they could move to a nas, you could at your leisure, determine which ones are truly to be permanently deleted with the balance being retained in the network folder.

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One way to do it:

  1. Make a new folder on your NAS drive
  2. First untick Settings > General > Empty trash on exit (to prevent eM Client deleting the trash folder on unexpected closure.
  3. Then “delete” the emails you want on the NAS server.
  4. At the end of your eM Client session, go File > Export > Export Emails to .eml files, select your Trash box and proceed with the export
  5. Then, if you want, right click on your Trash folder and choose Empty trash, or wait until Google deletes them.

Open any of the deleted emails on the NAS drive and it should display in eM Client (if that set to the default email program)

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use gmail and have a small nas and would like to redirect “deleted” emails to that nas as gmail will automatically purge these emails after a certain period of time.

If you want to keep emails that are in the trash on another network drive before Gmail automatically deletes them, suggest to maybe “create an external .emdf data file” and drag those messages from the Gmail trash folder into the data file.

You can then add more deleted emails anytime to the data file for long term keeping if you want.

To backup the data file “unmount it” and then once backed up, remount it to add more emails to it. See the below eM Client documentation.

“Data files”

https://www.emclient.com/webdocumentation/en/10.0/emclient/Default.htm#Data%20Files/Data%20Files.htm