EE wrote:
> You should make a habit of emptying the trash after deleting messages, > and then compacting the folders. And do not use the inbox for storage. > It was not meant for that. This page was written for Thunderbird, but > it also applies to SeaMonkey: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keep_it_working_%28Thunderbird%29 These may well represent good advice (the cited document states "Keep the Inbox empty. Move new messages that you want to keep to another folder after you've read them. This may help avoid corrupting your Inbox folder, and will help maintain best performance.", but in my experience neither is acually necessary. My inbox accumulates /all/ e-mail for the current calendar year (21628 messages to date) and I use shift-delete when mass-deleting so my "Deleted items" is normally virtually empty. If, as both you and the author of the cited article state, "Do not use the inbox for storage / Keep the Inbox empty", then I would argue that the current behaviour of Seamonkey is sub-optimal and it should /automatically/ move all read items into a different folder (e.g., "Read") so that it enforces the very principle that it enshrines. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
