Auto Compacting Folders doesn't actually do anything

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Re: Auto Compacting Folders doesn't actually do anything

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Nope.
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Uni1991 wrote:Just discovered 7 gigs of data on my other laptop yet only 430mb of mail in my gmail. Version 31.3 of Thunderbird I wonder if the issue will ever get fixed.


Please visit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment ... ction=edit to download and install the attachment, then add the "expunged" column to your folder pane. For the problem folder please report the size and expunged columns.
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I installed that add-on and it lists 434265 "expunged" and 16MB "size" for my inbox folder in my Fastmail IMAP account. I have 511 messages in the folder. I logged into webmail and looked at the quota settings. It reports the inbox is 15.7MB, which is consistent with the 16MB "size". However, I don't have a offline folder anymore for the inbox (due to disabling both global search/indexing and "keep messages for this account on this computer" in synchronization & storage). The "expunged" value is not effected by my compacting the folder. I have "when I delete a message" set to "just mark it deleted".

I exited Thunderbird, deleted the inbox.msf file, and restarted. The expunged column for the inbox folder is empty. It does have data for the local folders inbox. That makes me suspect the add-on relies upon data in the index file (inbox.msf) which is not reliable if you are using a IMAP account and ever changed the settings to prevent Thunderbird from writing to the "inbox." mbox file.
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I added a link to that add-on in the mail utilities KB article.
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Re: Auto Compacting Folders doesn't actually do anything

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wsm wrote:
Uni1991 wrote:Just discovered 7 gigs of data on my other laptop yet only 430mb of mail in my gmail. Version 31.3 of Thunderbird I wonder if the issue will ever get fixed.


Please visit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment ... ction=edit to download and install the attachment, then add the "expunged" column to your folder pane. For the problem folder please report the size and expunged columns.


Sinc eit effects all folders and not just one I'll chose the one which I was referring too last time. Size 2mb Expunged 10849775
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For security folder which is empty i.e no emails it's reporting 55227462. The mbox size is 53,934kb in size. This will continue to grow in size until I manually compact it.
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I guess this issue will never get fixed them. Even affects the 64 bit builds of Thunderbird as well.
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The issue is still ongoing.
Interestingly the 64bit version of fossimail works correctly and compacts folders correctly while 64 bit earlybird still has the bug.
So it works in Fossimail but doesn't in any 32 bit or 64 bit build of Thunderbird.
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