MSF are the indexes and the files without the extension are the local
mailboxes? The size of all my MSF files is only 200MB, largest file over
2GB (no extension).
I still need local copies for some messages that I may refer to more often.
How does it know whether a message was previously deleted or not yet
downloaded, even after expunged?
Also, do I change the setting before or after moving the files?
Rob wrote:
Mike Doroshenko II <[email protected]> wrote:
My drive is filling up and I need to move my SeaMonkey profile to
another partition. The profile is bigger than the maildir on the server
by almost a GB, is this for indexes or anything, can the GB difference
of disk space be claimed back by removing the indexes, if any?
Yes. You can remove all the .msf files in the ImapMail subdirectory
of the profile. However, they will return when you visit the folder.
When your IMAP server is on a fast link, the most effective is probably
to turn off the local copying of all mail. It will be only on the
server. Remove all files without extension after you have done that.
Should I move the files before or after changing the "Local Directory"
Server Setting? I don't want to lose any new mail received if SeaMonkey
sees it's mail on the sever not local and deletes it from the server
thinking it was deleted previously on another client.
That is not how it works. Seamonkey sends a delete to the server when
you delete a message. The server marks the message for deletion, and
performs all the deletions when you issue an EXPUNGE command (as indicated
in the "cleanup on exit" and "remove messages when it saves XXX" settings).
Not being in the local files is no reason to delete mail on the server,
rather it is an indication to re-download that mail. When you remove
a file from the ImapMail directory, it will again be downloaded.
The only "valuable" file in ImapMail (that you should not delete) is
the messagefilter.dat file.
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