Auto-compacting folders in Thunderbird
I often use an SE K610i mobile phone to check my email over IMAP. However, I’ve got Thunderbird at home and when I delete or move messages out of the inbox it doesn’t delete them for real immediately. SquirreMail handles these semi-deleted messages fine, but the phone displays them. This has been pretty annoying and I’ve become almost obsessed with manually forcing Thunderbird to compact the folder whenever I delete or move messages out of the inbox. The proper solution is much simpler:
If Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> “When I delete a message” is set to “Move it to the Trash folder” and you set mail.imap.expunge_after_delete to true using the Config editor Thunderbird will compact the folder immediately after you delete or move a message. Note: Thunderbird ignores the modified mail.imap.expunge_after_delete setting until after you have exited and restarted Thunderbird.
Thanks to MozillaZine: Compacting folders.
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