165894 - Empty Trash on Exit does not erase Msg in Folder file

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Tobias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I use "Empty Trash on Exit" - when I restart Mozilla Mail, the erased messages
are no longer shown. But when I take a look at the Mail-Files that are stored in
the users - folder, the filesize stays the same. when I open the file in a
Texteditor, the erased msg. is still in that file. So the User-Folder keeps
growing in seize! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set to Erase on Exit
2.Erase Messages
3.Look in the mailfile in Users-Folder 

Actual Results:  
Messages do not get erased from File

Expected Results:  
Erase the Messages in the file, otherwise it keeps growing till all available
Harddisk-space is used up!

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

are you using an imap or pop3 mail server? I.e., is the mail local or on the
mail server? Are you saying that the Trash folder is not really empty, or your
other local mail folders still have deleted messages in them? If the latter,
then you need to compact those folders yourself, and this bug is not really
valid (empty trash no longer compacts all your local folders)

Comment 2

[Tobias]

I am using POP3 and the mail is locally stored.
There are archive files (at least windows calls the "archive", they have no file
extension) for every folder in the path mozilla\users50\default\...\mail\

The archive files remain the same size after I deleted a lot of messages with
attachments. When I browsed the files with a texteditor I found out that all the
emails I deleted are still there, they only have a different "mozilla flag". But
the Mozilla mail program does not show them anymore. I assumed that the emails
will be deleted from the archive files too.

If this is not a bug, than it is still strange behaviour for me..

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

marking invalid - you need to do a compact folder to reclaim the disk space, or
set up auto-compact.