On Friday 21 December 2007 22:58:16 Rodney Baker wrote: > 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] > ===================================================
Further to the above, I went to ~/Maildir and ls -lh showed ~/Maildir/cur using 868k. All other directory entries (ls -lah) showed 4k as I'd expect for a directory entry on an ext3 filesystem. cd cur and then ls -lah again showed . using 868k and .. using 4k. I went back to Maildir, did rm -rf cur and then mkdir cur. ls -lh then showed cur using 4k. Back to KMail (after restarting it) and inbox still shows 916.2kB... -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
