[Dovecot] Bug: ThunderBird and dovecot 1rc1

[Scott Ellis]

John Peacock wrote:
> the.buratino at rambler.ru wrote:
>> As I've said before
>> messages are not removed phisically from filesystem, just marked for
>> deletetion. Though I'm not sure that this is dovecot bug and not
>> ThunderBird.
> 
> This is not a dovecot bug, nor a Thunderbird bug for that matter.  Many mail
> clients will DELETE a message, but not PURGE the folder until requested.

Precisely.  Check out the "CompactFolder" extension for Thunderbird 
(there are a handful of others as well) to cause a PURGE to happen.

	ScottE