Pratik wrote:
>
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Yes. Emptying the trash completely and irretreivable removes
> > the message bodies.
> >
>
> Why? I use POP mail and leave messages on server. I delete messages and
> empty trash when I want those messages to be deleted from the server. I
> don't really care if the messages stay as 'marked deleted' on my local
> machine. Why? Because server space is more important than local hard
> disk space. I don't want Mozilla to compact my 8MB+ Inbox all the time
> but I do want the messages off my server bcos I may only have 10MB of
> server space. Since we already have 2 seperate options for emptying
> trash and compacting folders, why don't we leave the functionality as
> separate? Empty trash shouldn't compact folders. if a user wants to
> compact folders he should compact folders using the Menu option.
>
> This 'feature' got introduced recently. Was this a bug fix for some bug?
> Can I get the bug-id in that case. More importantly, is there a
> user-pref to turn this off?
>
> - Pratik.
Emptying trash deletes messages that are "marked for deletion". Why else
would you "empty trash" if you didn't want them eliminated???
Compacting folders does nothing more than it claims, it does NOT mark
for deletion nor does it eliminate messages, they are still there and
readable after you compact folders.
I think you are confused as to the functionality of both the features.
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