Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
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On 02/14/07 16:23, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> If the tool does not provide a means to undelete messages, then I also
>>> find the decision to not make permanent deletion (either when the user
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> changes folders or exits the program; it doesn't need to be immediate
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> for reasons which have been repeatedly discussed in this thread already)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> a default action to be questionable at best. If you can't undelete it,
>>> then why keep it around?
>> Speed. Deleting an email from the beginning of a 500MB (or, 10
>> years ago, 50MB) mbox file can be slow.
>
> OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete
> *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already
> explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete-
You're right, I'm wrong.
(Note to self: read email when you have time to carefully read it.)
> on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are probably better, along with an
> allusion to the performance reason which keeps being brought up. Later
> in my message (in a part that you snipped), I even referred to the
> deferred deletion as being done for *good* reasons.
>
> And besides... If messages marked for deletion are cleaned out by
> default every time you exit your mail client, that mbox file won't get
> to be 500MB nearly as quickly (if ever).
Unless you keep a lot of email.
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