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. 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*. As far as I can see, if I compact after marking specific messages for deletion my remote mailbox, in my case at mail.antonaylward.com. goes down in size. But the messages I didn't mark for deletion remain. What happens is that IMAP has a 'delete' command and TB keeps track of which messages you've tagged for deletion. This is all IMAP & remote server. It does NOTHING for the local storage on my PC. At this level we are talking about the 'download messages for the whole account tick-box in TB. It seems to be 'on' by default. turning it off much later does not seem to do anything for the messages that TB has downloaded to its own spaces. The only thing that does, it seems, is Basil's suggestion that you delete the whole TB account. POOF! *EVERYTHING* about it has gone. Now recreate and LO! the messages on the IMAP server are still there! Only now they don't get downloaded because when you recreated the account you made sure that the check-box saying to download messages for this account was OFF. I wish there was a gentler way. And yes, you can download local copies of specific messages even with IMAP and then delete them from the server https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1119213 -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org