Re: M does not cleanup folder

Hi again,

sorry, I forgot to say that I'm running M under linux, SuSE 8.2,
kernel version 2.4.20. Didn't anyone else notice this problem?

Thanks,
Holger

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Holger Kummert <[email protected]> wrote:
HK>
HK> Hi,
HK>
HK> I'm using M-latest (0.66-snapshot from 8.6.2004) and I found
HK> the following problem, that was also present in the version I used
HK> before (0.65):
HK>
HK> The folder for my incoming mail ("Neue Nachrichten") doesn't get
HK> cleaned up when a received mail gets deleted (manually) or moved
HK> to another folder. All my folders are in mbx-type (because that's
HK> the recommended folder-type). The problem doesn't seem to be related
HK> to a special folder.
HK>
HK> To reproduce the error I first stopped M, then deleted the files "Neue
HK> Nachrichten" and my spam-folder-file ("Spam") manually to make them really
HK> empty (with rm-command). After that I started M again and received two spam
HK> mails that were correctly moved (by the installed spam-filter) to folder
HK> "Spam". Then I deleted these two messages in the spam-folder (on M's user
HK> interface) and stopped M again. When I look now into these files, both
HK> contain the two received messages, although I would expect that both
HK> only contain at most a mbx-header:
HK>
HK> -rw-------    1 kummert  company     12522 Jun  8 13:29 Spam
HK> -rw-------    1 kummert  company     12522 Jun  8 12:56 Neue Nachrichten
HK>
HK> Do I do something wrong? The problem is really embarrassing because
HK> some of my folders get very big sizes (about several mbytes).



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