237464 - Need automatic compact of folders option

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Todd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Netscape/7.1 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Netscape/7.1 Firefox/0.8

Hi All,

    I have several customers that transfer large attachments back and forth.
 Before I put them on Thunderbird 0.5, they were using Mozilla 1.4, which 
has an option to automatically compact the folders after a certain amount 
of dead space was reached.  This worked marvelously.  Would you please 
(re)include this feature in Thunderbird.

    I ask this as I have had customers with two eMails in their inbox 
and an inbox file size is 334 Meg.  Also, I tell them to periodically 
compact their folders, but they never remember.  So, it really does need 
to be automatic.

Many thanks,
--Tony

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Martin Petricek]

I think that is also would be useful to add option to "compact the folders when thunderbird exits", so thunderbird would compact the folders when you close it.
(so the disk space is saved and deleted messages are really deleted from inbox files)

Comment 2

[Jan Kozanek]

Just Install the official "Offline Support" extension. It brings the
auto-compact functionality. After install, go to Options --> Extenstions -->
Offline support --> Settings

However, at the moment, the extension has one really annoying flaw, see Bug#: 239027

Byli jste varovani :-)

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think that is also would be useful to add option to "compact the folders
when thunderbird exits", so thunderbird would compact the folders when you close it.
> (so the disk space is saved and deleted messages are really deleted from inbox
files)

see bug 223525

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Offline support is now part of the official download, altho it does need to be 
selected as part of the installation (if I remember rightly, that selection is 
made automatically).