Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 11:32, Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 10:44 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Felix,
> >
> > On Tuesday 26 April 2005 10:19, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Do you tell me, that if I just delete one email from a folder,
> > > > and do a compact, it will shrink then ?.
> > >
> > > Not exactly. After you both delete mail from a folder and
> > > subsequently empty the trash, then compacting will shrink the
> > > original folder the email was deleted from.
> >
> > Isn't the trash a separate folder (mail file)? I think it is and if
> > so, then the original mailbox form which the message was deleted
> > now has the space that message occupies marked as unused and it
> > will indeed be reclaimed when that folder is compressed.
>
> Depends on the mail client. I think by default evolution will only
> mark the message as trash not actually move it there. There is a
> setting to hide deleted messages.

I thought we were talking about Mozilla?

In KMail when you "delete" a message, it is moved (actually, it's 
copied) to the trash folder and marked as deleted in the folder from 
which it was deleted (and subsequently hidden from view).

I think Mozilla is the same, but I don't use it for email these days.

So without a doubt for KMail and to the best of my knowledge for Mozilla 
mail, once you've delete a message from a given folder, compacting that 
folder will recover the space, regardless of whether the copy placed in 
the trash folder is still there or the trash has been emptied. The 
trash is a separate folder, basically.


> Ken Schneider


Randall Schulz