On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 11:19 -0400, Default User wrote: > > (BTW, if anyone does have information about compacting folders in > > Evolution, I would love to hear about it!) > > What is 'compacting', what is it meant to do? [...] > If it just means really deleting email, then you can select the menu > option File > Empty Wastebasket which does that for all accounts. Or > for just a single account, right click on it's Wastebasket. There is > also Folder > Expunge which I believe does it for a single folder. This is probably the intended meaning. For strange historical reasons (mbox), reclaiming the space of a deleted mail used to be a non trivial operation, so the user interface separated both: marking single mails for deletion and actually doing it (which went by different names, like "expunge", possibly "compact" -- the latter reminiscent of crushing the holes left in a linear mbox). That user interface proved useful for other reasons (time for remorse), so it stuck, probably. So yes, wastebasket emptying is probably it. Cheers -- t
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