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[Garrett]

Today, after using Thunderbird for what seems like ever, I moved over to another email client.

I stumbled upon something that highly pisses me off while importing all my mailboxes from multiple accounts that I've had for eons now.... All these years, Thunderbird hasn't' been deleting my emails at all. When you delete and then empty the trash, thinking you've deleted the emails for good, they're not deleted at all, merely hidden from you and continue to build up forever, never being deleted from your mail box files at all.

In one email box alone for one account I have over 8000 emails that I deleted, but they were never deleted... Dating back to the year 2000. Now I have quite a job ahead of me going through multiple accounts and again deleting thousands upon thousands, years upon years worth of emails that should've been deleted long ago.

This issue may not seem like much to some, but to me, it's a oversight of epic portions in my book. When I delete something, it damn well better be deleted!

And I was wondering why Thunderbird was always kind of sluggish when using it. Could it be the huge mailboxes of years worth of undeleted emails that were suppose to have been deleted??? Noooooo.... /sarcasm off.

Anyway, if you use any Mozilla based Email Client, this likely is also something that has affected your email boxes.

I for one am so livid that I now refuse to use Thunderbird ever again. I may even drop Firefox since it's becoming a bloated pig now too and tossing junk in there that's useless.

Whatever happened to clean, small and usable software? that actually works as intended...

Well, I'm using Opera 9.5 now since it has a built in email client also. But I'm going to do a little test with it now too... Deleting all this old stuff again and then importing the email boxes from it to another email program to see if it actually deletes them or not also.

~Garrett

[vdsalchemist]

Hey look at it this way when you delete an email by mistake you can still recover it

[trapper]

Try compressing the mail folders. I believe this does permanently delete already 'deleted' messages.