I think you must be thinking of "Compact Folders" which is terminology used by Mozilla and Outlook. The equivalent in Evolution is called Expunge.
Jeff On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:35, Mark Gordon wrote: > I seem to recall that mozilla mail (or was it some other mailer I used a > long time ago?) had an option to "compress mailbox", and that it was > necessary to do so in order to free up disk space after "deleting" > messages. If that's what you have in mind, Dennis, Evolution does > deletion differently, and compressing the mailbox after deleting mail is > unnecessary. > > If you want to use compress, gzip, bzip2, etc. on the mbox file in order > to save space, as Not Zed says, Evolution won't be able to read it. > Probably only really useful for archival purposes. > > -Mark Gordon > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:33, Not Zed wrote: > > gzip -9 mbox > > > > but evolution wont read it. > > > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:53, Dennis Tuchler wrote: > > > How do you compress the mbox file? > > > > > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
