Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>> To access this option go to: View > Mail & News Settings > Server
>> Settings. There should be a drop down labled as "When I delete a
>> message" I believe to get the behaviour you want, select option "Remove
>> it Immediatly" This should delete the message with no additional
>> intervention. I hope this is what you were missing.
>
> I understand really well what you say. I found the dropdown, but it
> doesn't REALLY delete the message.
> I must Compact folder or Quit to expunge folder.
> Is it a bug? Or a feature? Or should this behaviour added?
Not sure about the option "remove Immediatly" it's probably
a bug in the option.
Marking deleted, instead of really deleting *is* a feature.
It improves performance for folders with lots of messages
using mbox format.
The mbox, standard unix mail, format stores all the messages
in one file (INBOX = /var/spool/mail/<user name>).
To really delete the message from that file, you have to
write the whole file over. If trhat file is a few KiB,
it's fast. If it's several MiB (lots of atachments like
spreadsheets and pictures) it take a while. So normaly
you mark the desire to delete the message, then after you've
marked all the messages you want, you rewrite the file once.
Same happens for moving, too.
Appending the end of the destination (new folder/Trash)
file is much faster (go to end and write *only* the new
data, ot the whole file)
A "compact on change folder" would be a nice option.
So would a "compact INBOX after filters run" option.
-Thomas
