Re: Empty trash causes Inbox compaction

[RV]

Peter Lairo wrote:

>
> This whole issue has my head spinning. Why do we need compacting at 
> all then, if emptying the trash will physically remove all messages 
> that are marked as deleted. What then does compacting do?
>
>
maybe because it is a lineal database. you delete a record and a "space" 
 is left in the lineal database. When you compact the thing, it actually 
puts all the records one after the other and the DB shrinks 
significantly in size ... I might be wrong  ;-)