Hallo Richard, On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:48:17 -0500GMT (4-2-2012, 1:48 , where I live), you wrote:
DC>> Look at "Folder, Browse Deleted Messages" RN> That certainly partially toggles what I see. So I guess you are saying RN> the answer to my question/point is that it is intended behavior for RN> IMAP implementation. It isn't related to IMAP, it's the same for pop3 accounts. I'll explain it. The message base for every of your folders is a single file. When you delete a message, your whole message base should be rewritten When you delete a second message, the file should be rewritten again This means that the whole managing of your message base would consist of lots of rewrites of big files. Not good for your drives and very time consuming. Therefore the index file was invented, it's used for other things too, but also to remember what messages are deleted. So when you delete a message, that message isn't deleted, but it is marked as deleted and the message base will only be rewritten when you compact it. That's why you should enable compacting the message base on exit: Account -> Properties -> Options -> Compact all folders on exit As messages are at first marked as deleted, you can undelete them again as long as you haven't compacted your message base. And as you noticed you can toggle the visibility of the deleted messages. In TB v3 and before 'browsing deleted messages' meant that TB opened a new folder and showed only the deleted messages for your folder, but the current behaviour shows them among the not deleted messages, that's more accurate than the old way. (Though it took me some time to get used to it.) This behaviour isn't unique for TB, it's common practice for all mail clients and it's borrowed behaviour from databases, who behave the same way. It's found in the help file under 'compressing folders', these days TB calls it compacting, but in previous versions it was called compressing and the help file wasn't updated. :-( -- Groetjes, Roelof Borg Moderator: Your Topic Is Irrelevant, your arguments are futile. http://www.voormijalleen.nl/ The Bat! 5.0.34 Windows Vista 6.0 Build 6002 Service Pack 2 5 pop3 accounts, 3 imap account OTFE disabled Quad Core 2.4GHz 4 GB RAM
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