How to configure Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client to Automatically Compact Folders

When you delete or move a message in the Thunderbird Email Client, like most Email clients, they do not handle their messages in a tidy way. The changes that you instruct the client to perform do occur, but many times the Client is simply making things disappear from view. Its kind of like if you were farming and had a great crop and at the end of the season you simply plowed over the area so that you could plant more crops on top. Unlike in farming where the things left behind are many times beneficial items. Items left behind by Email clients do not always nourish the soil for the next crop/message. Instructing your Email client to compact folders helps clean up the waste that is normally left behind while working with Email files. This article will show you how to setup Thunderbird Email to regularly compact your Email folders automatically. This will help your Email to run better.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• You will need a Computer with Thunderbird 2.x or higher installed and Email Configured.

1. Before starting please ensure that you have the Thunderbird Email Client installed and configured on your computer.
   
   Once you have verified that you are ready to begin open up your Thunderbird Email Client.
2. Tools Menu Located at the top of your Thunderbird Email select Tools from the toolbar.
3. Options... Next select Options... from the list of choices in the Tools menu.
4. Advanced Tab In the Options Window select the Advanced Tab.
5. Network & Disk Space Tab Inside the Advanced Tab select the Network & Disk Space Tab.
6. Disk Space Inside Network & Disk Space Tab find the Disk Space heading and put a check mark in the box named Compact folders when it will save over 100 KB.
7. OK Button The final step is to click on the OK button at the bottom of the Options window. For now on your Thunderbird Email client will automatically compact your Email files helping to keep things running smoothly.