On 11/05/2010 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > You can set "auto-compact" your folders by defining so under Preferences/ > advanced/network and disk space. thank you!! > "Compacting" is another of the annoyances of Thunderbird but is a "must- > do" task (if you avoid doing so your mailbox files will grow, and grow > and grow... because deleted e-mails are not really deteleted until you - > maually or automatically- hit the "compact" button). > > And that remembers me the third of the Thunderbird's annoyances: storage > files for each folder cannot go beyong 4 GiB). oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer? I've been afraid to archive, because I didn't know where the old messages go:) NOTE, now I do know where they go: http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Archived+messages
the 4GiB limit also goes for archived though, so.. what do you do? > More interesting reading: > > Compacting folders > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders > > Limits - Thunderbird > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Limits_(Thunderbird) thanks, good info! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd42852.5050...@pcartwright.com
