Hi Edward
I can't answer for Jeffredo, obviously, but in own case, I had posted an inquiry regarding compacting the email client. I discovered, more or less on my own, that:
- M2 does not have folders, per se, but rather differing views of the same, one data base.
- marking something as Read simply removed it from view
- deleting something, removed it to Trash and Emptying Trash essentially got rid of it
It was at this point that my confusion began. I know that emptying trash in Thunderbird/Mozilla/Netscape does NOT mean that it is truly gone. The only way to truly rid a folder of its contents is to compact it. Ramona and others have posted information regarding the importance of compacting... not just to conserve space (since we have such large hard drives today) but to prevent the various boxes/folders from corrupting over time.
I wondered about M2. I was told that one could NOT manually compact this client... that is does it to itself when a certain percentage is reached (something like 7 %). I find this unaccpetable, just as I find unacceptable the attitude that they know what is best and therefore will not allow me to send html messages (oh... I can receive them all right but not send them). I rarely do this anyway, but I want the privilege of determining what is right and not right for me and therefore it seems to me that I should have that option.
So... back to compacting. Apparently I can't do it in M2. It will do it when it's good and ready.... right? It was like pulling teeth to get anyone over there to admit this and after several insults I essentially gave up asking anymore questions.
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