On 9/30/23 14:13, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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?
As far as I know, there aren't any options for local storage.