Why is automatically emptied the trash on my email account?

My emails used to be saved in the trash and I kept for future reference. Now, they simply disappear. Is there a setting I can change to change this?

Re: my e-mails used to be saved in the trash and I kept for future reference.

"Trash" is for the items you want. "Basket" means "Rubblish' to be scrapped; throw; Remove.

They are only in the Trash because you selected the 'delete' or you move them manually.
The reason for having a 'Trash' folder is to act as a stop gap because sometimes you might delete an email by mistake and want to save.

File basket is not the place to store the items you want to keep.
Please create new folders to organize your wanted emails.
Use "Basket" to unwanted emails.

Trash (also known as "Deleted") can be automatic out empty on if the option is selected.
Tools > account settings > server for the e-mail account settings
or
Menu icon > Options > account settings > server for the e-mail account settings

Uncheck the box / select as appropriate: "empty the trash when leaving.
Click OK.

If you have an Imap email account, there may be a different policy, used by the server. Some auto Recycle Bin empty periodically by default and there is nothing you can do about it. After all, Trash is for unwanted items, then after a time saving an email deleted by mistake, they clear this folder to create more space.

Background information:
When you choose to delete an email or put it in the "basket", from your point of view varies for example: Inbox to "trash".
In reality, it is always in the Inbox as an email "marked as deled" hidden from view. So it is still too much space in the Inbox.
When you compact your Inbox folder those "marked as deleted" are removed, freeing up a space.

When you see a folder in the folders pane, it is in fact a mbox file (assuming that you Pop mail account or synchronize subscribed imap folders).

When e-mail messages are downloaded they are not stored as individual .eml files, they are stored one after the other in the order they have been downloaded in the same "file". If you do not want to put all your e-mails in one or a couple of files.
Create folders to organize messages into subsets.
Archives of old messages to free up space in regular used folders.
See the info on archiving.
https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/archived-messages

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