> Is there a way to permanently and completely delete messages? What I do is every 6 months or so I make a copy of my whole folder, rename as
> pmail-2010 or something, then delete the old messages so that my pmail doesn't get toooo big.
After deleting messages from a folder make sure you compress the folder to remove the deleted messages. Deleting only removes the message from the index (PMI), not the data (PMM) file unless you do the "Recover deleted space"
This should be done automatically if you delete a number of messages and have not turn on the folder compression in Tools | Options | Advanced "Deleted space recovery"
From the help:
When you delete a message, Pegasus Mail does not actually remove the message's data from the folder - instead, it simply marks the message as "deleted", and adds the size of the message data to an internal counter. Whenever the folder is closed, Pegasus Mail checks the internal counter to see if it exceeds a particular size, and if it does, it recovers the space occupied by all the deleted messages in the folder. If the folder is very large, or if you delete information from it frequently, this process of compression may become annoying or may take too long. Changing the value of this control allows you to tune the point at which Pegasus Mail will perform the deleted space recovery operation - setting a large number will make the operation happen less frequently, at the cost of having some of your disk space occupied by "dead" data. Setting this field to 0 turns off deleted space recovery - deleted data will never be removed from the folder, and it will therefore continue to get larger and larger over time.
The default value for this field is 24000 bytes: this value has been determined over a number of years to be a good compromise between performance and efficiency - we recommend that you do not change this value unless you have a clear specific reason fordoing so.
<p>&gt; Is there a way to permanently and completely delete messages?&nbsp; What I do is every 6 months or so I make a copy of my whole folder, rename as
&gt; pmail-2010 or something, then delete&nbsp; the old messages so that my pmail doesn't get toooo big.
After deleting messages from a folder make sure you compress the folder to remove the deleted messages.&nbsp; Deleting only removes the message from the index (PMI), not the data (PMM) file unless you do the "Recover deleted space"
This should be done automatically if you delete a number of messages and have not turn on the folder compression in Tools | Options |&nbsp; Advanced "Deleted space recovery"&nbsp; </p><p>From the help:
When you delete a message, Pegasus Mail does not actually remove the message's data from the folder - instead, it simply marks the message as "deleted", and adds the size of the message data to an internal counter. Whenever the folder is closed, Pegasus Mail checks the internal counter to see if it exceeds a particular size, and if it does, it recovers the space occupied by all the deleted messages in the folder. If the folder is very large, or if you delete information from it frequently, this process of compression may become annoying or may take too long. Changing the value of this control allows you to tune the point at which Pegasus Mail will perform the deleted space recovery operation - setting a large number will make the operation happen less frequently, at the cost of having some of your disk space occupied by "dead" data. Setting this field to 0 turns off deleted space recovery - deleted data will never be removed from the folder, and it will therefore continue to get larger and larger over time.
The default value for this field is 24000 bytes: this value has been determined over a number of years to be a good compromise between performance and efficiency - we recommend that you do not change this value unless you have a clear specific reason fordoing so.
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