On 01 June 2005 at 05:12, Allie wrote: Thanks for your response, Allie. It's helped me to understand what's going on. Sometimes I think my biggest problem is not knowing what all the options actually do. :)
> That's a bummer. I compress on exiting folders and this seems to work > most of the time. I'm loathe to check that option as I don't want to expunge the messages until I've exited the program. I sometimes need to retrieve the deleted messages. <good explanation snipped for brevity> > No. It would be better to just compress all folders intermittently or > just after a startup or just before a shutdown of TB!. This is because > compressing on exit isn't working for you. Seems like that's the route I'll have to take. <more good explanation snipped for brevity> > I don't even know what to say here. AFAIK, the IMAP protocol makes the > concept of a trash folder unnecessary. For example, Mulberry accounts > don't carry trash folders. If you delete a message in IMAP, it's simply > flagged as deleted. This is different from POP3 deletions. I know that > for TB! POP3 deleted messages remain in the message base until you run a > compress operation, but this isn't so for most other POP3 clients. As a > result, trash folders are necessary. After your explanation of how it works, I can see that it's unnecessary for me to use a local trash folder. If I want to keep the messages since I can be a little "delete happy" at times, I uncheck the "compress when moving between folders" option and they'll be there until I manually compress or exit the program (assuming that gets fixed). If I want to keep them indefinitely, then I would also uncheck the option to compress folders on exiting at which time the messages would only be deleted when I manually compressed. Again, thanks so much for your explanation. -- Regards, Terry Using The Bat! v3.5.24 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.24 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
