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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#24861: emails will not be deleted
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-04-27 16:58:59
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w.neu@web.de wrote:
> 
<snip>
> when you are deleting an email, kmail shows
> the deleted email in the trash folder and no
> longer in the inbox folder. But in reality
> the email is always existing in the
> ~/Mail/inbox file. The email will not be
> deleted by kmail.
<snip> 

Indeed, it will not be physically removed from the Inbox file. It is
only marked as deleted. That's because it would be too expensive to
remove each mail from the Inbox file each time one of them gets deleted.
Instead, the Inbox is "compacted" on exit (if you configure that) or
when you select File->Compact All Folders. That is, the Inbox is scanned
and each message copied to another file, except the ones which are
marked as deleted. Every MUA works this way, as long as it's folders are
in mbox format.

Closing as a non-bug.

Marc

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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics

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