Purge! :: Reviews :: Add-ons for Thunderbird

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by RedPanda. on March 11, 2011 · permalink

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "purge". Am I right in saying that it removes all traces of deleted emails in the actual data files?

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by grizzler on Feb. 24, 2011 · permalink

Pity this still doesn't work for Thunderbird 3. It won't even install (TB 3.1.7).

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user a67dda on Nov. 6, 2010 · permalink

Does not work on TB3.1.

It is already about a year since I e-mailed the developer about this issue and he just claimed that it works fine for him.... (?!) So don't expect this extension working anytime soon.

@joeltx: The "Compact" button doesn't seem to anything here. Would make sense that Thunderbird had this functionality built-in already though.... and it should be right there in the toolbar _by default_.

2 stars instead of 1 just because I remember this working so well in TB2.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Juan perez on Aug. 4, 2010 · permalink

4/8/2010

Not work in thunderbird 3.1.1

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by joeltx on Feb. 8, 2010 · permalink

This was a critical add-on for me in TB2. I also upgraded from TB2 to TB3 and really missed the button for this plugin. Then I found that this plugin is obsolete in TB3. Just edit the TB3 toolbar and drag the "Compact" button onto your toolbar. When you click "compact", it will purge your IMAP folder.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by rboltuck on Jan. 28, 2010 · permalink

I'm encountering the same problem everyone else has reported, that the "Delete Junk!" button doesn't work in TB 3. A thread on this issue is here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1699565 , and reports that the author is working on it. It might still be useful if the author would post something on when this will be fixed. I wonder if the problem is related to the different default manner in which items in the Junk folder are deleted in TB2 and TB3. In TB2, deleting items in Junk transfers them to Trash, whereas in TB3, they are deleted permanently and never appear in Trash (or at least that's what I think I've encountered). Thoughts?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by rboltuck on Jan. 28, 2010 · permalink

I'm encountering the same problem everyone else has reported, that the "Delete Junk!" button doesn't work in TB 3. A thread on this issue is here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1699565 , and reports that the author is working on it. It might still be useful if the author would post something on when this will be fixed. I wonder if the problem is related to the different default manner in which items in the Junk folder are deleted in TB2 and TB3. In TB2, deleting items in Junk transfers them to Trash, whereas in TB3, they are deleted permanently and never appear in Trash (or at least that's what I think I've encountered). Thoughts?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by pastisman on Jan. 18, 2010 · permalink

Hi,
With the Custom buttons extension , simply add a button with the code :

var acctMgr = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/account-manager;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgAccountManager);
var accounts = acctMgr.accounts;
for (var i = 0; i < accounts.Count(); i++) {
var account = accounts.QueryElementAt(i, Components.interfaces.nsIMsgAccount);
var rootFolder = account.incomingServer.rootFolder; // nsIMsgFolder
if (rootFolder.hasSubFolders)
{
var subFolders = rootFolder.subFolders; // nsIMsgFolder
while(subFolders.hasMoreElements())
{
var folder = subFolders.getNext().QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIMsgFolder);
if( folder.flags & 0x0100 ) try { folder.emptyTrash(null, null); } catch(ex) {}
}
}
}
goDoCommand('cmd_compactFolder');

in it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by johnsmithbisley on Jan. 10, 2010 · permalink

Just what I was looking for but like others I find is doesn't work on TB3. The icon stays grey and inactive.

Please update this extremely usefull add-on to work with TB3 in all circumstances.

Rating would be 5 if it worked as described.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Noobody28 on Dec. 21, 2009 · permalink

the Delete Junk button doesn't work in TB3 for me. Anyone else. It stays black and white and unclickable. Thanks.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by host07 on Dec. 13, 2009 · permalink

I really liked your Add-on, but since TB 3 its no more working. I would appreciate it, if you will upgrade it, becuase it is very usefull! Many thanks.