On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:23:17PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete > *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already > explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete- > on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are probably better, along with an > allusion to the performance reason which keeps being brought up. Later > in my message (in a part that you snipped), I even referred to the > deferred deletion as being done for *good* reasons. > So then it is OK for the program to become unresponsive for a minute, or five minutes or more (worst case) when the user changes folders or exits?
> And besides... If messages marked for deletion are cleaned out by > default every time you exit your mail client, that mbox file won't get > to be 500MB nearly as quickly (if ever). > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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