Auto Emptying of Trash Folder... Has It Changed La...

My trash folder in Yahoo mail has always emptied automatically every few days... but for the last two weeks hasn't. Now got around 250 items in there... so has anything changed ? (I know I can empty it manually by the way).  

According to the webmail portal..."Deleted messages are moved to the Trash folder temporarily, where they are subject to deletion at anytime"
Which suggests to me that you shouldn't expect consistent and predictable behaviour, once messages are placed there.

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