211582 - folder size not updated if I remove mails in this folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Fenintsoa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 1.4

In the folder size column, it is shown that the Sent folder was 80MB. Then, I 
deleted all messages in this folder but the folder size is always 80MB. The 
good news is that the "Total" column becomes really empty (it's OK!)

In the same way, my Inbox folder size is 12MB while the total mail size in this 
folder is actually about 500KB

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Choose one random folder and note its size
2.empty this folder
3.note the size again

Actual Results:  
the folder size does not change. 


Expected Results:  
After emptying a folder, its size should be O KB.

In a general way, the size of any folder should always be the sum of the mail 
size in it. But this is not the case.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

You don´t want to write a file of about 80 MB each time you delete one mail of 5 KB.
So you have to use the function File->Compact Folders to reduce the folder size.
I didn´t find this info in the help file.

Comment 2

[Fenintsoa]

The point is that after compacting the Inbox folder for instance, the previous 
size of 80MB becomes 887KB whereas the sum of all mails in this folder is 
only ...27KB

Comment 3

[Fenintsoa]

Actually, Everything is OK after compacting folders. I previously did a bad 
manipulation making a misunderstanding. Sorry! 

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Based on reporters comments: --> INVALID

Comment 5

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm... forget to resolve.