[geeks] Speaking of Mozilla.....

[Brian Dunbar]

On Jan 22, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> ...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.
>
>
> And having dug into this deeper and pinged the Mozilla folks, it 
> appears
> this is a known issue, with an existing solution; it's just ... 
> obscure.
> And what's that other word?  Oh yeah . . . "Undocumented."  That's it.

Wasn't this a 'feature' in Netscape mail going back a few years?  I 
dimly recall one of my users back then having megs and megs of disk 
space in his mail directory yet he swore up and down he _did_ delete 
his old mail .....

~brian