On 2018-08-25 13:45, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2018-08-25 5:13 a.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
In my experience, when Thunderbird does a compact operation, it does save space. Right click on folder, choose compact.
5599325 on imap.telefonica-4.net/INBOX 4696026 after compact.
yes it does, but WHAT does it compact?
As I understand it, it compacts the files you have marked for deletion.
mails, not files. And no, I did not delete or mark for delete any emails myself.
If you have saved local files because you mistakenly clicked the check-box when creating that IMAP account and have a pole of locally saved messages and then unclick that check-box, it does not seem to remove the locally saved files.
UNLESS you mark the messages for deletion in the account window pane.
Now as I and others have commented the point of IMAp is that you shouldn't have needed to download the messages in the first place. if you intended them to be downloaded to a single device then you'd use POP. But if you planned to read your (remote) mailbox using multiple devices (aka phone/tablet) then you want them left on the IMAP server. It seems TB can *also* download a *copy*.
No, I simply make TB display faster email that were already displayed previously, simple as that. This is not about storing mails for archival. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)