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Hi Jason,
On 04 September 2001 at 17:51:07 -0400 (which was 22:51 where I live)
Jason Ellis wrote to Januk Aggarwal and made these points:
JE> that seems like a bad thing to me. If I hit the delete button, it
JE> should move it to the trash folder. It should *not* leave it
JE> hidden in the folder it was originally in, that just doesn't make
JE> any sense at all.
You have to understand what an email "folder" is first. It is
essentially a large flat file stream of messages. To "delete" a
message completely means rewriting the entire flat file while
excluding the block of text that "once was a message". And rebuilding
the index. That takes quite a while, and for it to happen every time
you hit "delete" would be grossly unacceptable, as I'm sure you
appreciate.
Obviously, it makes more sense to simply mark the message as deleted
and mark the folder as one which is "compressed on exit" to remove
such remnants.
TB is not alone in the use of such mail database structures. It is the
standard in the Unix world, for instance.
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user
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