Josh Harding wrote:
> Wow, that's a lot of confusion to read through!
>
> Some of the confusion about IMAP vs POP appears to be due to the fact
> that IMAP has an option "Mark as deleted". Rather than referring to
> that option, there was reference to the way messages are deleted from
> local mail folders by tagging the message for later deletion.
>
> I think it's an excellent idea to compact folders when emptying the
> trash and here's why:
>
> The novice user shouldn't need to know that they should periodically
> compact their mail folders. From the UI, there's no indication that a
> folder with 0 messages in it could be taking up a lot of disk space.
> To help keep this down, the perfect time to compact the folders is when
> the person empties the trash. This makes Moz work like you'd expect.
> Think about deleting files in Windows: When you delete a file, it's not
> actually deleted, it just moves to the Recycle Bin. When you empty the
> Recycle Bin, the file is actually deleted. The only diff is that in
> Moz, the (potentially) time consuming effort of compacting the mail
> folder is postponed until the user selects empty trash.
>
> When a user gets a large attachment and wants to delete the message to
> free up disk space, they expect that after deleting the message and
> emptying it from the trash, they should have their disk space back.
So how would Compact Folders fit into this model? It also makes sense to
me that disk space should be returned to me when I compact all folders.
Like I had said, I'm not religious about this issue. Now that I know
deleting message removes it from the server, my main problem is gone.
However, instead of assuming user perception, I'd love it if there was
an option in the prefs saying "Empty Trash also compacts folders". You
can have your way and keep it enabled by default. That would be the best.
- Pratik.
> It's already a two step process to get a message removed from your
> filesystem. Why make it a three step process?! (delete message, empty
> trash, compact folder
> The Amigo
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