Retain Email on Phone

[noisemaker]

Anybody know how to set the period of time an email is kept on the phone? This setting changed in the last week on my S4 and I can't find out why. Up until recently, I could read an email either on the phone or my PC and it would stay on the phone for 30 or more days. I could swear there was a setting to set the time period, but I'll be darned if I can find it. The auto-deleted email doesn't even appear in the trash folder on the phone. It now is no longer available the next time I open my email. But email I delete manually do go to the trash. This is for a POP3 account. My gmail accounts and my exchange account work properly. Help, please!

 

[STSVA]

Someone posted a similar question on another forum and one of the suggested solutions was to switch from POP3 to IMAP. You might try that, if available with your email server.

 

[Darnell0216]

While in Email: Menu -> Settings -> "account you wish to modify" -> More Settings -> Number of emails to load. Note that this setting works by total number from 25 to All. Showing the last XX emails may be more than some get in a month, while others may get this many in a week, so your experience will vary with using one of the preset numbers. The mail client offered a "Last XX Days" option on my previous phones, however I do not know if this is a change made by Samsung with the S4 or by Google with 4.2.