[geeks] Speaking of Mozilla.....

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 @ 15:42 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> ..I just made the interesting and unhappymaking discovery that when you
> delete mail with Mozilla, Mozilla doesn't delete it.  It just *marks* it
> as deleted and doesn't show it to you any more, but it's still all right
> there on your disk in mbox format.  Mozilla just keeps track in the
> Inbox.msf file for each account of which messages in Inbox are allegedly
> deleted.  Aorta like MSDOS changing the first character of "deleted"
> filenames to ^E.
> 
> You can tell Mozilla to trash the mail, and it says, "OK, message marked
> as trashed."  Then you tell Mozilla to empty the trash, and it says "OK,
> trash marked as emptied."
> 
> Then you open up ~/$USER/.mozila/$username/hash/Mail/$account/Inbox, and
> gee golly gosh, there it is, intact and untouched.
> 
> And I've spent the last 30 minutes or so discovering that if you go in
> and manually clean them out, Mozilla gets unhappy.  

You have to pack the folders to get rid of the old stuff.

They do that for performance reasons.

Of course, that makes you wonder why Mozilla is so damned slow then
doesn't it?


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