Ming-Li,
Regarding your message dated: 14 September 2000...
ML> On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 6:50:50 AM, Mark wrote:
>> Needless to say, the purge/compress flag is permanently set on my
>> Outbox now... just in case. :)
ML> By "purge/compress" flag do you mean both the "Remove old messages"
ML> and "Compress the folder" checkboxes or just the latter?
Well, the truth is that I have both boxes ticked for most folders
including the Outbox. However, by purge/compress I probably really
only refer to the latter as the necessity to rid the folder database
file of unwanted (previously sent) messages.
I rarely use the time-out or number-out options of "Keep nn messages"
or "Keep messages for nn days" except for a few mail-list folders
where I generally create a separate archive folder and only keep the
last 20 days or so of messages in the 'current' folder... this just
keeps things brisk (ito response time) when accessing folders such as
my folders for TBUDL where normally I only need to reference the most
recent messages for following recent threads and posting replies.
Only occasionally do I need to dig up some hint of info posted 12
months ago which means a trip to the archive folder instead.
I suppose I could just selectively pick what to keep but I don't
always have time to read all threads every day (and hence ctrl-m gets
a liberal use) but whilst disk-space is not an issue having the entire
history of threads since I subscribed plus a reasonable use of the
search tool I can generally dig up my own answers...
ML> I check only the latter, which would physically remove deleted
ML> (including sent) messages. I'm not sure about the former. I know
ML> it would purge old messages according to certain conditions (keep
ML> nn messages/keep messages for nn days), but I don't know if it
ML> would purge unsent messages (not drafts) as well. E.g., if I set
ML> the Outbox to keep zero message, and auto-purge on exit, then
ML> would it purge my unsent messages upon exit?
I just did a quick experiment with this and the answer is yes.
I wrote this reply, put it in the Outbox, set Outbox prefs to keep 0
messages, exited TB.
When TB restarted the message had gone. Luckily, I did ctrl-paste the
text into a TextPad temporarily so I didn't have to rewrite this
message ... before anyone laughs at me!
Best wishes,
Mark
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