On Friday 21 December 2007 22:22:37 Will Stephenson wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007, Sandy Drobic said: > > When you delete a mail in your imap account the mail is only marked with > > the delete flag. Only when you compress the folder (or whatever it is > > called in KMail) will the marked mails be expunged and removed from > > storage. It's a feature, not a bug. (^-^) > > Correct. If you have 'automatically compact folders' checked in Configure > Kmail..->Accounts->Receiving->Modify... (your account) this happens > periodically. > > If this is not enabled, you need to use the Compact Folder action in each > imap folder's context menu. > > Season's greetings from the KDE team! > > Will > > > -- > Desktop Engineer > KDE Team
OK, I understand that, but when I look into the actual maildir folder (in this case, ~/Maildir/cur for read inbox items or ~/Maildir/new for unread), the only emails that exist are those that appear in the Inbox folder in KMail. Running "Compress Folder" has no effect - all deleted mails have been moved to the Trash folder and have then been deleted/expunged when the Trash folder has been emptied. 'Automatically compact folders' is checked in the settings dialog as instructed above (and has been from day 1). I have just deleted all items from my inbox, compacted the folder and checked that there are no files in ~/.Maildir/cur or ~/.Maildir/new and yet it still reports that the IMAP inbox size is 916.2kB. The same applies to other folders - it seems that KMail is incrementing the size each time a new mail is seen but never decrementing the size when a mail is deleted/expunged or moved to another folder. Unfortunately Evolution doesn't show folder sizes for comparison and Outlook only shows the local inbox size, not the IMAP inbox size. BTW, I checked to see if KMail was looking at a local cached copy of the imap folders and confirmed that it is not. Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
