On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:27:49 -0700 Rufus <n...@home.com> wrote: > »Q« wrote:
> > Your inbox is actually a file on your hard drive, and each e-mail > > occupies space within that file. Moving an e-mail out of the inbox > > does move it to wherever you chose, but the space it occupied in > > the is still there in the inbox file; IOW, the inbox file is the > > same size even after you delete stuff from the inbox. Compacting > > the inbox gets rid of that (now useless) space, reducing the size > > of the file. > > I could see doing that, but setting the file length to zero on Delete > - then Compact deleting the headers(I think there are other things on > my system that do this)...but even that seems like far more effort > than just moving/reallocating the file location to the Trash. Setting the file length to zero would get rid of all the e-mails in the folder, including their headers. I'm not sure what SeaMonkey would do WRT the index if it found a zero-length inbox. If it's important to you, you could set up a fresh profile and test your ideas. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
