How do I turn off automatic compaction but still allow manual

[David Mills]

Hi,

Kmail was regularly (it seemed to be several times a day) compacting all 
folders.  I have a lot of folders with a lot of email so this process was 
taking a lot of time and chewing through most of my computer's resources.  At 
one point the kmail process got to 6 GB of memory used and I wasn't able to do 
much else with the computer.

I cannot find a way to turn off automatic compaction - so I have set 
"Compactable=false" for all my folders in the kmailrc file.

The trouble here is that it also prevents manual compaction.

How can I get manual operating but not automatic?  Or even better, automatic 
only to operate on a few select folders (i.e. the ones I use most)?

I'm using kontact, kmail etc from the 4.2.4 release for openSUSE 11.0.

Thanks,

David.


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