[blindeudora] Re: FYI Compacting mailboxes
- From: northstar1950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:09:57 -0500
"Should Eudora do automatic EXPUNGE commands on your IMAP mailboxes?
If you don't know what and EXPUNGE command is, just click YES."
Solution:
By selecting YES to this question, you are telling Eudora that it
should periodically clean out messages marked as deleted from your
IMAP mailboxes. Selecting NO will prevent Eudora from doing this
automatically, but will require you to manually remove these deleted
messages yourself. If you don't regularly remove messages marked for
deletion from your IMAP mailboxes, you may run out of storage space
on your IMAP server.
We recommend you choose YES.
DETAILED EXPLANATION:
The IMAP protocol allows for a message to be marked as deleted in its
mailbox on the server, but leaves it there until an EXPUNGE command
is received to remove deleted messages. Until the mail client
specifically tells the server to delete messages, they may remain in
their mailboxes on the server indefinitely, taking up valuable disk
space.
Eudora can be configured to handle deleted messages in two different
ways. You may configure Eudora to move messages to a Trash mailbox
on your IMAP server when you delete them. Or you can configure
Eudora to display deleted messages in IMAP mailboxes. They will show
up with a special icon in the server column indicating they are marked
as deleted.
When Eudora is configured to store deleted messages in a trash
mailbox, it copies messages the user wishes to delete to the trash
mailbox on the server, marks the original messages as deleted, and
finally issues an EXPUNGE command to clean up the original mailbox.
In most cases, this prevents deleted messages from ever building up
on the server. However, if you access your IMAP mail account from
another client (like a web interface) that doesn't support the
concept of a trash mailbox, you may see deleted messages in Eudora.
Allowing Eudora to periodically remove deleted messages makes sense
in this scenario.
When Eudora is configured to display deleted messages, they are
simply marked as deleted on the server. They remain in the mailbox
until the user specifically chooses to "Remove Deleted Messages" from
the menus in Eudora. When this menu item is chosen, Eudora issues an
EXPUNGE command to the server which then removes all messages marked
for deletion from the mailbox. Until deleted messages are manually
removed, they take up valuable space in your IMAP account. Allowing
Eudora to automatically remove deleted messages keeps the IMAP server
happy, removing these unwanted messages without user interaction.
Eudora 6.2 and newer have the ability to hide deleted messages from
view. If you have configured Eudora to not use a trash mailbox but
hide deleted messages, you'll enjoy a much snappier interface without
having to see deleted messages in Eudora's mailboxes. However, the
deleted messages are still on the server until they are removed with
an EXPUNGE command. Allowing Eudora to automatically remove deleted
messages is highly recommended in this situation.
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