451101 - Mails/News deleted in GUI but not deleted from hard disk

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183837

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Markus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 PooBrowser/6.0 PenguinOS
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16 (20080724)

Today I just found my ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ directory having an unusual size of 248 MB although I'm using IMAP and I just have about 50 mails stored on that account.
A further analysis with find brought out that the Inbox file of my old pop3 account which I deleted several months ago is still there:

.mozilla-thunderbird/2yenn68r.default/Mail/pop3.web.de/Inbox

I opened the file and saw that there are very old mails which I must have deleted years before I used this pop3 account the last time.

The same thing with my newsfeeds: Every rss article I downloaded, can still be found in 
.mozilla-thunderbird/2yenn68r.default/Mail/News & Blogs/tagesschau
although I deleted it in the GUI.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use pop3 and/or get some rss feeds
2. store some data and delete some
3. have a look at your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/<profile>/Mail directory and its contents


Expected Results:  
The software should have deleted all the mails and articles from my hard disk when I deleted them in the GUI (I used the "del" button on my keyboard if this is useful for you...)

I started using thunderbird with version 1.0 and I've never changed anything in the ~/.mozilla-thunderbird directory. So my problem could be a result of version incompatibilities (except the issue with newsfeeds which I use since thunderbird 2.0)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

use file/compact folders and this is no bug.

Comment 2

[Markus]

Thank you.
I wasn't able to find the other report under the mass of data...