| Bill Jonas on Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:30:10 -0500 |
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:28:45PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote: > i get charged for disk usage, so i want to compact the email folders > or just download all the messages up to a certain date to an archive. > does anyone know if this is possible via mozilla mail? Sure, just select the first message, find the last one, shift-click that one, then drag all the messages to a local folder. Note that this can take a long time on a slow link or with a large number of (or large-sized) messages, since you have to download all the messages you're moving. > the compact older option seems to have no effect. My understanding (and a Google search should confirm this, but I'm too lazy to do that right now) is that on local folders, Mozilla doesn't actually delete the message, but simply marks it as deleted (and then it will not be displayed, just like it had been actually removed). The "Compact" command actually goes through and gets rid of deleted messages; this can result in a substantial space savings if you have a good number of message which you've deleted since the last time you've compacted the folder. The internals of IMAP folders, on the other hand, are not managed by Mozilla. When you delete a message in an IMAP folder, the client (Mozilla, in this case) simply tells the IMAP server to delete the message, and the server handles the details. What usually happens is that the message *is* actually removed from the folder (at least by the time you select a different folder -- I'm not overly familiar with the internals of the popular IMAP servers). So the "Compact folder" command basically becomes a no-op on an IMAP mail folder; no operation == no effect. :) > i like mozilla mail because i can use the same client on linux and > windows. what others would you recomend that can do this archiving? Well, I love Mutt and wouldn't pass up an opportunity to plug its use, but it might not be what you're looking for. (Although it *does* handle IMAP just fine. FWIW, I use it when I'm in Windows; I ssh (via PuTTY) to my server where it stays running 24/7 inside a screen(1) session.) -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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