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Re: Compact Newsgroups

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Subject: Re: Compact Newsgroups
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:38:38 -0500
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by: Wayne - Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:38 UTC

On 4/27/21 3:51 PM, Teddy-Bears wrote:
> On 4/27/21 3:18 PM, this is what Jeff Barnett wrote:
>> On 4/27/2021 1:02 PM, Teddy-Bears wrote:
>>> On 4/27/21 2:03 PM, this is what Andy Burns wrote:
>>>> Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Windows 10 Pro, x64. Thunderbird 89.0b1. Is it necessary to
>>>>> compact newsgroups or if you set Thunderbird to delete messages
>>>>> older than 12
>>
>>>>> days does it automatically do this?
>>>>
>>>> I have my folder/server setting set to delete messages by age, and
>>>> occasionally it prompts me to compact them.
>>> There is a setting to compact automatically when more than X bytes
>>> can be saved.
>>
>> You found such a setting for NEWSGROUPS? Where is it?
> The setting I found was only in Mail. Sorry.

The setting is for ALL account types.