On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:39:05PM -0600, Craig Woods wrote:
-> I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes another one, in Netscape. I was
-> wondering if someone has seen it, and maybe has a fix. The "bug" occurs
-> when you delete your email from the trash bin. It is not deleted off
-> your harddrive. It seems that all you do, by deleting in the mozilla
-> trash bin, is delete the email subject line. The total disk usage stays
-> untouch after you delete in the trash bin. I ran a "ls -ls" and a "du"
-> before and after deleting from inside the GUI. I see no change. Yes, I
-> can do a "rm" but what concerns me is the inbox continues to grow, and
-> even after highlighting unwanted mail, and sending it to the trash bin,
-> it does not diminish the inbox's disk usage. I am smoking Windows or
-> what??
->
-> Craig
The mail reader may not actually delete the message. It may simply market
it for deletion, and do garbage collection later. In fact, you have to
tell Netscape to collect garbage. In the mail reader, see the Files
menu. See Edit->Preferences->Mail->Disk space for a way to automate this.
Or use another mail reader, like Mutt. :-)
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