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#1 2010-11-01 19:15:36
- Mr. Alex
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Deleting Thunderbird mail...
When I delete some message from my account in Thunderbird (in program), it doesn't seem to make ~/.thunderbird/ dir smaller... So I guess deleting message in program doesn't delete it for real? It's like Thunderbird just marks a message as deleted. Why? I dont' have infinite HDD.
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#2 2010-11-01 19:42:08
- skunktrader
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Re: Deleting Thunderbird mail...
When you first delete the message, it is moved into the Trash folder. Once you have deleted the message from the Trash folder, you can run File -> Compact Folders to compress the mail data.
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#3 2010-11-01 19:44:12
- loafer
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Re: Deleting Thunderbird mail...
I haven't used Thunderbird in quite a while but there used to be a Compact option under the File menu which permanently deleted messages.
edit: skunktrader was too quick.
Last edited by loafer (2010-11-01 19:44:48)
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#4 2010-11-02 08:58:19
- Mr. Alex
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Re: Deleting Thunderbird mail...
So "Compact Folders" deletes deleted messages? Or it compresses mail? I just wanna make it clear to me.
P. S. I have Trash folder configured to clear itself automatically upon exit.
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#5 2010-11-02 10:32:34
- Allan
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Re: Deleting Thunderbird mail...
Deleting messages just flags them as deleted. Compacting the folder actually removes those messages from the file.
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