Oh, okay thanks. Right now I mozilla just move messages to trash, so I guess it doesn't apply until I delete messages in my trash folder. Thanks.
Lincoln Ramsay wrote: > Ben Ruppel wrote: > >> I would like to know exactly what compact folders does to IMAP >> folders. It suggests there is no dataloss, but there has to be some >> tradeoff. Anyone know? Does it interfere with use of Webmail with the >> same mailbox? > > > I had Mozilla using my Exchange mailbox as IMAP. When I deleted a > message in Mozilla, it still appeared in Outlook. However, when I > compacted the folder, the message disappeared. There's a setting to move > deleted items to the trash or just delete them now. The latter would, I > assume, mark the message as deleted then compact the folder. > > It all comes from the way Unix mail programs store mail. A mail "folder" > is really a giant text file. When you delete an item, it marks it as > deleted (in the message header) and copies it to the trash "folder". > Compacting folders removes all "deleted" messages. >
