106751 - Inbox file and Inbox.msf not in sync. Deleted mails still found in Inbox

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Neeraj Desai]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011017
BuildID:    2001101717

I work on a HP-UX machine and I have a POP3 account to view mails. I have
noticed that whenever I delete a message from the Inbox folder in the Mozilla
mail client, the actual file Inbox located in .mozilla/../Mail/ directory still
contains those deleted messages. This was seen when I tried to run 'elm -f
Inbox'. This is causing my downloaded mails to Inbox to takeup a lot of
diskspace inspite of deleting all the junkmails that I get daily. Can you please
show me way so that the Inbox file reflects the exact amount of messages I see
in the Mozilla mail client.
Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run Mozilla mail client & delete some messages. 
2.Close Mozilla. See the Inbox file in the .mozilla directory
3.Run 'elm -f Inbox' and you shall see those deleted messages show up.


Actual Results:  The number of messages in Inbox are more than the # in mozilla
mail client.

Expected Results:  'elm -f Inbox' should show same number of messages as shown
in the mail client. Probably that means Inbox.msf should always be in sync with
Inbox so that the deleted mails are taken out of Inbox file in .mozilla/ directory.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

You have to compact local folders to reclaim space - that's the way berkeley
mailbox format works. That's the way all netscape and mozilla e-mail clients
have worked from the dawn of time :-)

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified.