On 09-01-2001 at 03:07, Douglas Hinds kindly wrote:
> Hello Thomas & others on TBUDL following this thread,
TF>> ... deleted messages only get a "deleted flag" and are not taken
TF>> out of the message base, so it grows and grows. Only Compressing
TF>> would actually do the clean-up.
> 1).- You are saying that deleted messages are NEVER deleted unless
> this is done?
Yes. Think of your actual mail-in-a-folder as residing in a
database. What you see when you look at a folder is just the
*index*. When a message is deleted, it disapperas from the
index - but it still resides in the database, as the option
"browse deleted messages" proves. In order to get really rid
of deleted messages, you need to compress - which is
basically rebuiliding the database using the index as the
criterium.
> (I'd never noticed the Folder / Browse Deleted Messages option).
Try it on your inbox. You might be surprised ;-)
> 2).- Does this include the dupes are are killed?
Dupes somehow disappear immediately.
> 3).- This is true whether done at the folder property level or
> (manually via) the folder menu level?
If you compress, you compress. If you compress a folder, you
compress a flder, and if you compress all, you compress all
folders.
> 4).- That wouldn't work for a folder that disappeared then (or would
> it)? (Which happened recently, as mentioned earlier). Since you
> must be IN the folder for the command to take effect
Depending on how folders are deleted (there are three
options: move messages to thrash, wipe message (data)base,
leave message file (data)base intact. Yet once the folder
itself is gone, you can't peruse it. That means that you
also can't check for deleted messages.
- K -
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