solved: kmail: compact local folder
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 16.38 schrieb David Bishop: [...] > (since-fixed) kmail bug. Close KMail, locate your kmailrc (in > .kde/share/config) and find the line that says 'Compactable=[no|false] and > change it to 'true'. Then restart kmail and right-click compact again. It > should now be much smaller. Works. Great! Thank you.
Re: kmail: compact local folder
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:08 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a > > > few undeleted emails in. > > > How can I compact that file? > > > > using the right mouse button in the treeview pane in kmail over the inbox > > folder and select compress ? > > Unfortunately there is no 'compress' just 'compact'. > And referring to the KMail documentation, this is just to purge deleted > mails from an IMAP server. > http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdenetwork/kmail/setting-up-your-account.html It is also for the older-style 'mbox' type local accounts. And this indeed is what you are running into. It has all of your old emails, not deleted, just marked so in the index file. If manually running compact on the folder does not drastically reduce the size of the mbox file, then you have been hit by a (since-fixed) kmail bug. Close KMail, locate your kmailrc (in .kde/share/config) and find the line that says 'Compactable=[no|false] and change it to 'true'. Then restart kmail and right-click compact again. It should now be much smaller. HTH. -- MuMlutlitithtrhreeaadededd s siigngnatatuurere D.A.Bishop
Re: kmail: compact local folder
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 14:08, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few > > > undeleted emails in. > > > How can I compact that file? I had this problem too with my inbox (move msg to new folder, inbox: move all msg trash, and moving msg back to inbox, was a way to compact the inbox). I've never checked if other folders have the same problem. Just checked and I have again the same the problem with my inbox. I wanted to submit a bug report and found this old closed bug that I reopened: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39290 Achim > > > > using the right mouse button in the treeview pane in kmail over the inbox > > folder and select compress ? > Unfortunately there is no 'compress' just 'compact'. > And referring to the KMail documentation, this is just to purge deleted > mails from an IMAP server. > http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdenetwork/kmail/setting-up-your-account.html > > Regards, > Michael > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kmail: compact local folder
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few > > undeleted emails in. > > How can I compact that file? > > using the right mouse button in the treeview pane in kmail over the inbox > folder and select compress ? Unfortunately there is no 'compress' just 'compact'. And referring to the KMail documentation, this is just to purge deleted mails from an IMAP server. http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdenetwork/kmail/setting-up-your-account.html Regards, Michael
Re: kmail: compact local folder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few > undeleted emails in. > How can I compact that file? using the right mouse button in the treeview pane in kmail over the inbox folder and select compress ? Ralf > > Thanks, > Michael - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+biMvu0nKi+w1Ky8RAlNYAJ0eXGL8b+2g/AHL6qI/jETc+4/wSQCghHaN LwzHdojIuwsh3GOuPiky7AE= =aDIn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: kmail: compact local folder
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few > undeleted emails in. > How can I compact that file? > > Thanks, > Michael Michael, I'm assuming you are using Kmail. Two ways click Folder ->Compact when you are in the Inbox folder. (You can compact all of the other folders the same way) or Settings->Miscellaneous->Compact all folders on exit(Check it) and shut down Kmail every now and then. Bob
kmail: compact local folder
Hi, my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few undeleted emails in. How can I compact that file? Thanks, Michael
