On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +0000, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use > > File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option "Compact > > folders when it will save over XXX kB" (you can also specify specific amount > > of disk space). > > Oh, I see. "Compact" means "really delete the messages that I said to > delete, but are actually just marked as deleted, not physically deleted". > How incredibly obvious. > It is obvious. To people who come from Outlook-land. Remember, the Mozilla tools are primarily targeted at Windows. Their portability and usability on other platforms is a happy coincidence.
> I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). > Ever have a huge mbox? Mayb 10,000 or 50,000 messages? Would you be really annoyed if you pressed delete and took 5 minutes before your MUA was responsive again? That is why it does things the way it does. If you delete the first message out of a very large mbox and the MUA actually removes the message, it will take a long time. Hence, the tagging and only actually removing it on the compact operation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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