On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!)
What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? Sounds like 'compressing' to me, don't know if protocols like IMAP has a way to ask the server to compress it's folders. (I would have though how emails are actually stored would be an internal implementation detail of the server). If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the menu option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. Or for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There is also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. You can also configure Evolution to empty the wastebasket after a period of time, or as I have it configured, whenever you close Evolution. (I've always hated the idea of Wastebaskets, if I delete something I want it deleted, not just hidden and taking up space). -- Tixy
