On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 9/30/23 08:04, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 00:12 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> > Thunderbird keeps continually telling me it wants to compact the
> > mails
> > storage for what is a trivial amount of space, Is there a way to
> > make
> > it
> > use a reasonable size to do the prompt?
>
> I don't use Thunderbird, but is this a POP account being stored in
> Mbox
> format? If you want to keep using POP, a better alternative is to
> keep
> your mail in Maildir format (which I assume TB supports). That
> never
> needs compacting.
The compacting is for the local storage. Maildir is server-side
behind
the mail server.
Evolution uses Maildir for local storage. Do you mean that TB doesn't
support that?
poc