[oclug] Kmail remembers

[Jeff Tranter]

Do you regularly "compact" your folders (or configure kmail to
do it on exit?)

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Hey Gang,
> 
> Has anyone else noticed that messages you've deleted from inbox in
> Kmail are not actually deleted from ~/Mail/inbox?  I've seen this 3 times
> now.  My ~/Mail/inbox currently weighs in at 11M, and begins on Christmas
> 2000, stuff I thought I had long since deleted.  Maybe this has something
> to do with Kmail's storing each box as one large flat text file, rather
> than as a directory of files.  It's an odd way to organize individual
> messages.  I happen to like a GUI mailer, but I use Kmail only because it's
> less-flawed that the other ones. And I have tried them all, I think.
> 
> So, beware of Kmail eating your entire harddrive.