291812 - context menu to 'empty and (then) compact this folder', and under top level to 'empty and compact all folders'

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Silvia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
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It's rather cumbersome in, say, the 'Sent' folder to have to select all 
(either through menu or individually, delete, then compact the folder.  A 
single choice under the drop down menu for the 'Sent' folder (and other 
folders) to 'empty and compact this folder' would be most helpful and 
efficient.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Jeff Morris]

I agree that this would be helpful.  I am commenting to prevent this RFE from
being auto-resolved, as well as voting for it.

Comment 3

[Dave Silvia]

I guess my comment would be that in some cases, automatic removal based on an arbitrary time lapsed criteria is not necessarily a good idea.

Ideas to improve a product's usability are just that: improvements. I feel that rather than being removed, this report should be added to a list of enhancements to be addressed to improve the user friendliness of Thunderbird, hence improving the chances of increasing its user base.

tia,
Dave S.

Comment 4

[Shaun]

I too would like to see this feature added.  It makes sense that the only folder with a right-click -> empty folder option is the "deleted items" folder but this feature would be nice to have on every other folder. Since it is implemented already only a little work to expand it should be needed. 

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Similar to Bug 1748043, I don't think we'd add UI complexity.