ATTENTION:
Compacting folders in
Thunderbird means that all the messages you have previously deleted
from those folders are now permanently deleted
from the hard disk and cannot be retrieved again. Keep this in mind when using this
extension.
This is the most recent stable release of Xpunge. I have made two versions available with slightly different
icon sizes, so you have the option to download the file that best fits your current
Thunderbird theme. If you are using the default Thunderbird theme or one with
equal icon sizes (16x16 and 24x24 pixels), please download Xpunge from
the Mozilla Addons site, I am not hosting
this file here anymore (there is really no need to).
To install the extension, download the xpi file on your computer (right click, "Save As" or "Save Link As"), open the extensions
window in Thunderbird ("Tools -> Add-ons"), click on the "Install" button to
open the xpi file you just downloaded and restart Thunderbird.
COMPATIBILITY NOTES:
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Thunderbird 5 came with several changes that broke the compatibility of Xpunge. This means that versions of Xpunge for Thunderbird 5 (version 0.4.2 or newer) are not compatible
with older versions of Thunderbird. So if you are using Thunderbird 3 or older, please install Xpunge 0.4.1 or older.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0 - 6.* |
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Catalan (ca-AD), Danish (da-DK),
Dutch (nl-NL), French (fr-FR), German (de-DE), Greek (el-GR), Hebrew (he-IL),
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xpunge-0.4.3-16_24.xpi (@ Mozilla Addons) : Tested on Linux, with icon sizes of 24x24 (large) and 16x16 (small) pixels. Download this version if you are using the default Thunderbird theme on Linux or MS Windows.
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xpunge-0.4.3-20_30.xpi : Tested on Linux, with icon sizes of 30x30 (large) and 20x20 (small) pixels.
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xpunge-0.4.3-24_32.xpi : Tested on Linux, with icon sizes of 32x32 (large) and 24x24 (small) pixels. Download this version if you are using the default Thunderbird theme on Mac OSX.
TRY XPUNGE BETA: I have now made available
a beta version of Xpunge, currently Xpunge 0.5b3, which includes the
often-requested and long-awaited feature of emptying the Junk folders too.
The beta is made available for evaluation purposes and may be unstable, but if you do not mind testing
it, I would appreciate your feedback.
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Xpunge is an extension
that allows the user to empty the trash folder and compact folders in multiple
Thunderbird accounts with a single action.
Thunderbird offers these two operations only for a single account and through separate
entries in the File
menu ("File -> Empty Trash" and "File -> Compact Folders").
When multiple accounts are set up,
repeating the same steps for each account can become quite tedious. This is where
Xpunge comes in, combining the two actions (emptying the trash folder and compacting folders)
in the convenience of a single button. It actually introduces two new buttons for the main Thunderbird toolbar,
one used to process a single account and one used to simultaneously process multiple
accounts, all done with just a single mouse click in each case. The same functionality is also
available through an "Xpunge" menu added to Thunderbird's "Tools" menu.
Moreover, there is a separately configurable timer feature that allows processing of multiple accounts
to be done automatically at a specific time every day and at regular intervals from the
time Thunderbird is started.
Xpunge works on all types of Thunderbird accounts, including IMAP email accounts.