Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
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On 02/14/07 09:33, Paul Walsh wrote:
> Daniel D Jones wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I presume you meant "early '80s"?
>
> "You learn something new every day" the saying goes.
>
> I hadn't realised about the function of the "Compact" option 'til
> I read this thread. Might (partially) explain why my windozZe
> laptop goes into meltdown when I open Tbird - AV software grabs
> 100% CPU as it scans the mail (presumably because the 'Inbox'
> file still has the contents of messages marked as deleted?) and
> the system's pretty well unusable. I'll go through the folders
> compacting when I get the chance.
Tbird has a "compact folders when it will save nnn KB". That should
help things on the Windows side.
> As the laptop's a multi-boot system (soon to have a Suse variant
> replaced by Etch) I'll simply switch to using Tbird/IceDove for
> mail. Eventually I expect to switch to using a VMware (or
> virtualbox) virtual machine for winXP and just have the laptop
> boot to Linux by default (which is what I do on my PC at work)!
>
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