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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Deleting messages?
From:       Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-02-18 3:21:05
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Robert D. Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> > > On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, George Staikos wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Robert D. Williams wrote:
> > > > > How do I get rid of messages in a folder?
> > > > >
> > > > > I go to a folder say, CVS, and delete every message by typing 'd'.  I
> > > > > looked at Mail/CVS and they are all still there.  So I 'Compact All
> > > > > Folders' and they are still there.  Am I doing this right?
> > > > >
> > > > > I really want to remove these messages, this file is over 1MB (well
> > > > > it was, I deleted with 'rm CVS').
> > > >
> > > >   context menu on the folder name has an option to emtpy the mailbox.
> > >
> > > However, if he is right (what I assume), then the compacting of folders
> > > is broken.
> >
> > It does appear to be broken in 1.0.28.
> > 	John
> 
> Also with 1.1.35.   What is compact suppose to do?  Does it remove messages 
> that have been deleted with 'd'?  If that is the case it does not work for 
> me...
> 
> The remove context option is great, but I like to keep some messages.

I don't delete messages very often so I haven't tested compact too thoroughly.
There is some weird stuff going on with auto-compaction on exit. You can see
where I started to debug it in:

kmfolder.cpp-  if (access(location(), F_OK) == 0) {
kmfolder.cpp:    debug("KMFolder::create call to access function failed.");
kmfolder.cpp-    return EEXIST;
kmfolder.cpp-  }  

The call to the access function is failing sometimes, I couldn't work out why.

BTW In case anyone is interested I been testing my background downloading of
message code for a few days now, it's seem to be working pretty well, no
blocking at all and leaving mail on the server and only retrieving new messages
is very quick. I have broken the interval mail checking code though so I'm
going to have to fix that up. (Maybe i'll do it tonight).

Still a bit early to check it in.

BFN,
Don.

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