And it came to pass that Pratik wrote:
> 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.
And it is - Compact Folder does just that - it compacts the data
in the folder without deleting. Think of it as a "site defrag".
>
> 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.
>
As previously explained in great detail, you can't have one
without the other.
The messages are actually IN the folders EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN
ONLY VIEW THEM IN 'TRASH', so when it's time to delete, they
have to be FULLY removed from the folders, and this action is
exactly the same as compaction.
So emptying 'TRASH' is going to cause compaction of folders from
which messages have been deleted. This is NOT a seperate
action, and it is NOT a problem.
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