On Sunday 12 October 2003 04:35 pm, dfox wrote: > Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete > anything > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Which version of kmail are you using? I use v1.5 with KDE 3.1.3 and > > have no problems. If I use the keyboard delete key, it places the > > selected mail into the trash folder. If I use the X icon (right next > > I'm using the same version as yours. But haven't you noticed that the > messages in inbox don't ever get deleted? Is your inbox (assuming of > course you keep the messsages there) still growing ever larger if you > delete the messages? The messages are gone in the sense they never show > up in kmail, but the disk space is still being consumed by them. At least > this is still true with respect to inbox, and it's too soon to tell if it > is the case with my temp folder. even trash will grow periodically if i > don't delete the folder and recreate it periodically.
This is configurable behavior. Go to Settings, Configure Kmail and click on the Folders tab. You will see an entry for "On Program Exit perform" and there is a check box next to empty trash. If you check that box then the trash will be emptied each time you exit Kmail. If you don't, you must manually empty the trash by right-clicking on the trash folder and choosing empty. Kmail does not automatically delete your trash, just in case you want to recover a message that you trashed by mistake. It does allow you to automagically delete it by choosing to override the default behavior in the settings. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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