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David Morrison - 16 Aug 2006 02:42 GMT

When I click on the box at the bottom left hand corner of a mailbox
window, the mailbox seems to be compacted immediately. When I
Option/click on it, then all mailboxes are "scheduled for compaction".

However, when does the compaction actually happen? I cannot imagine that
it is actually doing it since it only says it is scheduling them, and it
doesn't take very long.

So do they get compacted in the background, when the mailbox is next
opened and closed, when I Quit from Eudora, ...?

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David

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Sander Tekelenburg - 16 Aug 2006 06:01 GMT

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> When I click on the box at the bottom left hand corner of a mailbox
> window, the mailbox seems to be compacted immediately. When I
> Option/click on it, then all mailboxes are "scheduled for compaction".
>
> However, when does the compaction actually happen?

Just Option-click, sit back and wait, if you want to see it happen.

Eudora waits, I believe, for some period of idle time (which is
configurable actually, much like anything else, through
x-eudora-settings). For me it starts after 60 seconds. Compaction of a
few hundred mailboxes with 10 years worth of email then takes about 15
seconds (but many of those mailboxes haven't changed since the last
compaction.)

> I cannot imagine that
> it is actually doing it

You don't need to imagine ;) When it is done you can see that it is
done, by looking at the bottom left of a mailbox and seeing the third
value be zero.

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david - 19 Aug 2006 09:31 GMT

> Just Option-click, sit back and wait, if you want to see it happen.
>
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> seconds (but many of those mailboxes haven't changed since the last
> compaction.)

What about IMAP-mailboxes? My Eudora seems unable to compact them. If I
look at a Eudora-compacted mailbox with pine deleted messages are still
there even though they are marked for deletion.

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david - 23 Aug 2006 16:47 GMT

> What about IMAP-mailboxes? My Eudora seems unable to compact them. If I
> look at a Eudora-compacted mailbox with pine deleted messages are still
> there even though they are marked for deletion.

No ideas about this?

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Kathy Morgan - 25 Aug 2006 15:48 GMT

> > What about IMAP-mailboxes? My Eudora seems unable to compact them. If I
> > look at a Eudora-compacted mailbox with pine deleted messages are still
> > there even though they are marked for deletion.
>
> No ideas about this?

Nope, sorry. I've never had an IMAP account, so I can't do any
experimenting, either. You might try "refreshing" the IMAP folder and
see what affect that has--but I think maybe that just updates Eudora's
information about what the IMAP server has.

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Compacting mailboxes