Interviewed by CNN on 21/4/2010 08:27, Daniel told the world: > O.K., well if that's the situation then you should probably know that > when you move an e-mail from the inbox to the Trash folder, it's not > really moved, it's just marked for deletion (one of the bits in the > header is changed from a zero to a one, or something).
Well, THIS part is correct... > > Then, when you Empty Trash, all the stuff that's still in your inbox > that's marked for deletion is actually deleted. Until then, the e-mail > is still in your inbox file, just not showing. ...but this one isn't. Actually, the "marked for deletion" message in the inbox is deleted when the folder is compacted, which is independent on having the Trash emptied. Emptying the Trash has the same effect as (re-)deleting all messages in the Trash and then compacting it -- but since Seamonkey does not have to worry about *keeping* stuff, it can take the shortcut of deleting the entire folder and recreating it as a new mail folder, which is way faster. > So having all these e-mails still, really, in your inbox is why it's > taking soooooo long to re-index. The problem is not the deleted messages, is the *remaining* messages. I try keeping mine under a thousand. If there are significantly-sized groups of messages with a common theme (same sender company, for instant) it would probably be better to set up a rule and send those directly to a separate folder. This improves both performance (because the inbox doesn't grow so much) and organization. For instance, I subscribe several mailing lists and Yahoogroups; all of them have their own folders. Most of them are of the "non-urgent" variety -- so keeping them in separate folders keeps my Inbox uncluttered; when I'm busy, I just ignore those folders. When I have time I go to those and read them. > I was going to suggest that you stop Trashing these messages, but maybe > you could try marking them as "Junk", but I think that would really be > the same thing. Similar, in that the message is (usually) moved to the Junk folder, where they will be kept for a while and then deleted; but different, in that marking it as "junk" trains the program to recognize similar message with the goal of tagging them as "junk" automatically. You REALLY, REALLY SHOULDN'T tag relevant (but old) messages as "junk." -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... A Klingon is no one's vassal. (Lt. Worf) *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.4 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
