[geeks] Speaking of Mozilla.....

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:42:28AM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >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 .....

Yup, it's apparently been that way *forever*, and has never been
addressed except via this undocumented "Compact folders" option.


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