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leafac / kill-the-newsletter

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
https://kill-the-newsletter.com
MIT License
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Emails disappear after a while #59

Closed ufo512 closed 2 years ago

ufo512 commented 2 years ago

Hi, is there some limit on the amount of emails that can be stored under an email address? I’ve seen that they disappear after a while. What are the inbox rules or limits? Do emails in the xml file disappear after some set amount of time?

Also is there a way to extend the limit or remove it if I were to host it my own server?

leafac commented 2 years ago

Hi @ufo512,

Thanks for reaching out.

We remove old entries to keep Atom feeds under 500kB, because some feed readers refuse to process files bigger than that. There’s no time limit, only a size limit.

If you’re hosting Kill the Newsletter! on your own server, you can change this limit by changing this line. Unfortunately this means you’ll have to compile Kill the Newsletter! yourself, instead of using the binary we provide. That’s relatively straightforward to do and I can help if you get stuck. Perhaps in future I’ll make this easier to tweak.

You may increase the limit if you want, but I don’t recommend you remove it altogether. At some point the feed may become too large and even if your Atom feed accepts it, things may get slow.

Best.