292553 - If e-mails are deleted, the folder doesn't change its size.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: thunderbird 1.0.2 (20050317)

I had a lot of e-mails in one folder (>90 000); the file in the 'mail' folder
was like 1.5GB, and moved most of them to a new folder. When I recieved ~5 000
e-mails, the folder reached 2.00GB and an error appeared saying that I don't
have enough disk space. I emptied the folder (inbox, by the way), and the file
retained its 2.00GB of used space (but if I opened thunderbird, I had 0 e-mails
in that folder).
So the problem is that even if you empty a folder (inbox, etc), the file in the
'mail' folder keeps its previous size.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy some e-mails to any folder
2.view the size of the file in the 'mail' folder
3.move the e-mails to any other folder (so there aren't any e-mails in that folder)
4.view the size of the file again
5.even though there aren't any e-mails on the folder, there is used disk space.

Actual Results:  
the flder retains its maximum size

Expected Results:  
if you delete e-mails from the programme, the file in the 'mail' folder should
have lowered its size.

You can't recieve e-mails if you reach a limit of 2GB in one folder (at least
with the inbox being at 2GB)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

You must compact the folder after you deleted mails to get the mail removed from
the file.