Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Which version of kmail are you using? I use v1.5 with KDE 3.1.3 and > have no problems. If I use the keyboard delete key, it places the > selected mail into the trash folder. If I use the X icon (right next
I'm using the same version as yours. But haven't you noticed that the messages in inbox don't ever get deleted? Is your inbox (assuming of course you keep the messsages there) still growing ever larger if you delete the messages? The messages are gone in the sense they never show up in kmail, but the disk space is still being consumed by them. At least this is still true with respect to inbox, and it's too soon to tell if it is the case with my temp folder. even trash will grow periodically if i don't delete the folder and recreate it periodically. I've been using the same mail folders more or less since I first used kde some several years ago now. I think that there might have been folder corruption that happened a few times over the years, but that doesn't explain the behavior on a newly created folder. > to the trashcan icon in the toolbar for kmail) it eliminates the > message completely rather than passing it to trash. To empty the trash > and eliminate any messages passed there by filters or whatnot, I right > click on the trash folder and select "empty trash". > >praedor > >On Sunday 12 October 2003 03:10 pm, dfox wrote: >> 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. > >- -- >I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great >evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. >Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal >vice of any religion. >- --Richard Dawkins >Key fingerprint = D6F9 8682 2257 2871 10C6 DB92 6F50 8BBA B100 EB15 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE/ibhKb1CLurEA6xURAiiwAKDXLV3gCNr5EyGuRozrVIFG6THwMgCgtMP1 >brVCaLqttLK1qb+7HlkvUts= >=rDw4 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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