Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 22:45, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > "Compact", in that sense, refering to expunging deleted messages from an
> > mbox or other mail store, has been *the* common word for that action for
> > literally decades, predating even the popular internet (e.g. in the days
> > of BBS, Fidonet, etc). It's was used even far before that in other
> > database and database-like applications.
>
> Never struck it when dealing with mail. Before I came to Linux I had use
> Pegasus, Eudora, Groupwise something or other. When I started using
> Linux at Polytech, it was Pine. I don't remember having to compact
> anything to *actually* delete mail.
When I first started using Electronic Mail, it was in QWK format, downloaded
from direct dialing BBS computers located in someone's living room. I
imported the QWK files into a DOS-based reader called Robomail. In order to
keep Robomail running snappily and happily on my 386 processor with 1 meg of
RAM, I had to routinely compact my mail database to remove "deleted"
messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and that's what
the drop down menu said. That was in the early '90s, over 20 years ago.
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