474911 - Inbox file grows and keeps old messages which are deleted or moved to other folders

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect)

Description

[user522]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14

Inbox file of POP3 account keeps old messages even when they are moved to other folders or deleted. For example when the mail UI shows Inbox with 50 messages with total size about 2MB, the Inbox file is 60MB and the first message in the file is a year older than the oldest in the UI.

Reproducible: Always




Temporary fix:
 create Temp folder
 move Inbox messages to Temp
 close SeaMonkey
 delete Inbox and Inbox.msf
 move messages from Temp to Inbox

Comment 1

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

There are already a few solutions:

1. You can use the compact folder function from the folder context menu, to compact one folder.
2. You can use File - compact folders to compact all folders in one step.

If you don't want to do that manually, you can activate the "Compact folders when it will save over ... KB" preference in Preferences - Mail & Newsgroups - Offline & Disk Space.