I couldn't find any setting in Mail that would delete mail older than 60 days besides, it never deleted the email older than March 11, just that 8 month window that appears to have vanished. Unfortunately I have Mail set to delete email from the server immediately upon download, and the techs claim they cannot restore any email from server backups (although I think rather they I called them up, and they advised that retention isn't limited by date, just a 2 GB size limit (which I find very unlikely to have been exceeded because my entire mailbox folder going back to the previous millennium is less than 600 MB). That suggested to me that perhaps my ISP has only 60 day retention. The email it did download appeared to be exactly 60 days old or less. It appears that either Mail deleted it, or is hiding it, or it was deleted from the server before I ever even downloaded it. Now, my POP account gets all kinds of email every day (automated bill payments to utilities, spam, etc), so I know that I didn't "just happen" to not receive any during that 8 month period. Several days ago I launched Mail again, and it proceeded to download the email from the servers however upon its completion I noticed that there were zero emails on my ISP account between March 11 to November 10 (the mac.com emails looked fine). Due to other priorities, I hadn't bothered to check my email for several months.
I use Mail for my mac.com as well as my POP email account through my ISP (Cox).
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