If you were using an IMAP connection, then messages you removed would be flagged as deleted, but not actually removed. If you were to check that mail with something like mutt, then you are prompted to purge the deleted messages when you shut it down.
I'm seeing this right now using IMAP via MS Outlook - no messages are actually removed from my inbox until I purge them with mutt. It's a minor inconvenience right now, as I'll be switching back to POP3 I think. Otherwise, there's no harm to my mail box except maybe storage space. HTH Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cory Syvenky Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clug-talk] mbox mailboxes I'm wondering if anybody can help me understand something fairly strange. I've been using KMail as my mail application for more than two years. This will be changing to Apple's Mail application. Since I am transitioning between applications, naturally I'll need to import all the data from KMail. Fortunately for me there is a built-in import wizard, so I ran it and imported KMail's mailboxes. What I ended up with is a bunch of folders, some starting with . (ones that have subfolders), and some with just a plain title. To my surprise my "inbox" folder has 2527 messages (some dating back to July 7th)! How I could have so many messages? cS _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
