This used to work before, but it's been a very long time. Assume I don't move to trash, and confirm delete by using shift-delete rather than the regular delete - that key combination has shifted over the past few releases of Kmail anyhow. But anyway, it's a real delete.
Now back in the old days, Kmail used to actually delete mails from the various folders when you issued "Compact". This hasn't happened for a very long time. Despite expiring and deleting articles from Inbox, my inbox was growing ever larger - approaching several hundred megabytes. I finally decided I'd convert to Maildir format, but I couldn't change that on Inbox, so (for now) I've created a "temp" folder containing all the messages that were in inbox (about 150 megs, as opposed to nearly 400) and moved all of inbox over to temp. I then emptied inbox. Now I've been moving the inbox stuff over to temp on a regular basis, and inbox is beginning to grow again. With all the spam/virus stuff out there (fortunately I can prescreen much of that stuff), inbox is up to 12 megabytes or so. temp/cur hasn't seem to have shrunk, and I see some largish posts in there which seem that they could be previously deleted mails. Without killing my existing mails and starting over, what should I do? I don't think removing and recreating inbox is an option but that's probably the only way to make it into a Maildir format, which is probably going to make actual deletion easier. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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