[CLUE-Talk] An interesting implication for security for users of Mozilla

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> Look for a menu item for "compacting" your folders. That should do the
> trick. At least, that's what I remember from my old days running netscape.
> 

NS (and I assume Mozilla) keep a mail file and an index file.  The index 
is what is loaded to show you the window with subj, from, date, etc. 
columns.  Part of the index is a pointer to the messages location in the 
mail file, so moving messages requires rebuilding the index (so it 
doesn't happen for every delete).

Look in Preferences -> Offline & Disk Space.  There is a box to check 
that will auto compact if the wasted space gets too big.

Dave