On 09-01-2001 at 04:36, Douglas Hinds kindly wrote:
> In the Moldavian version of the word compress, no compression
> occurs. What does happen is that "deleted" messages ARE deleted (w/o
> the quotes. AIFAIK, this is equivalent to the American English word
> PURGE (purging "deleted" messages, in this case, so that they become
> simply truly deleted messages. So if compressing is really purging, then
> what is purging?
Read my explanation about databases and their indices:
Think of your actual mail-in-a-folder as residing in a
database. What you see when you look at a folder is just the
*index* (the list of headers). When a message is deleted, it
disapperas from the index - but it still resides in the
database, as the option "browse deleted messages" proves. In
order to get really rid of deleted messages, you need to
compress - which is basically rebuilding the database using
the index as the criterium.
(And yes, compressing and purging is the same in TB, as has
been explaioned before.)
- K -
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might appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been would have
appeared to them to be otherwise.
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