On 09-01-2001 at 03:06, Douglas Hinds kindly wrote:
> Hello Karin & others on TBUDL following this thread,
>>> it [would] do me any good to compress if TB! is nearly always
>>> open? (I even use it for certain word processing tasks), and
>>> don't tend to eliminate messages except manually or via spam
>>> filters
KS>> Most probably: yes. Because everything goes to your inbox
KS>> first and will be filtered or manually moved to seperate
KS>> folders (unless you keep everything in your inbox).
> Whoa! When are folders compressed? When TB! is closed or when the
> folder is left for another?
De[pends on your folder settings.
> Re where my mail goes: Lists and regular things are filtered to
> their own folders, occasional things stay in the inbox unless copied
> or moved to specific issue oriented folders. So all my recent
> inboxes are kept free of unread messages and any spam getting
> through is killed there.
That means that mail generally moves out of your inbox. If
you've never compressed that, there's a helluva lot of diskspace
to gain.
> I'd better repeat: When are folders compressed? When TB! is closed
> or when the folder is left for another?
On two occasions:
- When you exit (*if* you have defined the filder to do so;
check under Folder --> Properties to reassure yourself), or
- when you manually demand a compression (by selecting
folder --> purge and compress).
> Or does compression have
> novel meaning here (like deleting deleted messages)?
That's hardly novel. That's the standard use for compression
in databases - which is basically what mail boxes are.
- K -
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