On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:35:21 -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. > I'm assuming each message is it's own file/structure... The structure of each inbox message (which is just its headers and body text*) is within a single file; that's a key in understanding how moving/deletion and compacting work, which is why I mentioned it in my first sentence in this thread. ;) > but now that I look through my Profile structure that seems not to be > the case. :) > It doesn't matter to me really just what SM does - it's just a > surprise, as my primary e-mail client - Mac Mail - doesn't structure > this way. Each message is an individual file. That's a newer way of doing it. There was work going on to add support for doing it that way to Thunderbird (and so I assume to SeaMonkey), and maybe that will continue. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
