Oh, I meant to add that compacting is typically useful when record (email?)
storage is in something like an mbox file -- it saves the need to rewrite the
file each time a single file is deleted (for example).
On the other hand, with storage in something like mdirr files (right name --
one em
On Sunday, April 30, 2023 06:24:14 PM Default User wrote:
> > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do?
The definition of compacting as I "grew up" with it (not sure where I first
encountered it is the idea that in some applications, the act of "deleting"
something doesn't actually delete i
On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 07:38:45AM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:24 -0400, Default User wrote:
> > It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather
> > than the mbox format [...]
> I thought we were talking about IMAP protocol access to Google? In
> which case E
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:24 -0400, Default User wrote:
> It does occur to me that Evolution may use the maildir format rather
> than the mbox format. I just ASSumed that it used mbox, since in Menu
> > File, there is an option to save messages in mbox format. If
> Evolution uses the maildir forma
On 01/05/2023 05:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
According to this:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders
This basically explains that compacting is an operation that should
fundamentally be transparent to the user, and that Thunderbird makes the
user aware of it for ... no good rea
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 20:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> > 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!)
> >
> According to this:
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders
This basically explains that compacting is an operation that should
fundamentally be transparent to the user, and that Thunderbird makes the
user aware of it for ... no good reason.
Thunderbird will compact things for
On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 18:26 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> 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'
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> 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? [...]
> If it just
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
On Sat, 2023-04-29 at 00:01 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> For those who missed start of the thread: it is dedicated to IMAP
> access
> to Gmail and Evolution behavior.
>
> On 27/04/2023 23:15, Default User wrote:
> > It stays in both folders, with
> > only the one in "All Mail" having a line throug
For those who missed start of the thread: it is dedicated to IMAP access
to Gmail and Evolution behavior.
On 27/04/2023 23:15, Default User wrote:
It stays in both folders, with
only the one in "All Mail" having a line through it, showing that is
marked for deletion, but is not deleted, and is
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