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Compressing mailboxes can't turn off the automatic option

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abrody
abrody

It would appear at random intervals I am given a dialog box asking if I want to compress mailboxes. I never do. I can't tell that dialog that I never do, because the option is not there. How do I force thunderbird to leave mailboxes uncompressed?

It would appear at random intervals I am given a dialog box asking if I want to compress mailboxes. I never do. I can't tell that dialog that I never do, because the option is not there. How do I force thunderbird to leave mailboxes uncompressed?

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abrody
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I might add, I am able to on each occasion block it, but the dialog box appears at inopportune times when I am trying to do other things.

Matt
Matt
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Were you wanting to loose all your mail? Just keep saying NO. It is that simple. Compact or compress as you call it finally purges deleted mail from a folder, that includes moved mail. It is an essential houskeeping action that must occur periodically. Your inbox store for instance gets pretty messy pretty quickly if you move a lot of mail to other folders or receive and delete a lot of mail as all that mail is still stored but not shown until you choose to compact the folder.

Options > Network and disk space you will find compact settings. You can even turn it off, but as I said, that is a very bad idea.