233961 - RFE: Automatic folder compaction (WITHOUT asking!!)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115499

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[John Parsons]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040202 MultiZilla/1.6.1.1d

In the prefs you can check "Compact folders when it will save xxx kilobytes".
However the actual preference is labeled "mail.prompt_purge_threshhold". #1
suggests that it will do it without further user interaction; #2 explicitly
mentions a prompt, which is in fact what happens. Would it not be better to
compact folders without the prompt - since the user has already indicated that's
what they want?
From a useability point of view the prompt locks the system, so you lose any
advantage gained from automatic download of mail at startup, and then if the
folders are still being compacted the filters refuse to work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

mail not filtered while compacting folders is a bug, bug 139215


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115499 ***