Charles Curley wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
> --
>
> -- C^2
>
> No windows were crashed in the making of this email.
>
> Looking for fine software and/or web pages?
> http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
or just click on file --> compact all folders. and perhaps clean up disk.
