Son, Tran Tuan a ?crit : > Do you know why Thunderbird folder is very large? > I only use Thunderbird in three months, and its size now is >1GB :( > It is equivalent size of my MS Outlook in 1 year. > Mozilla Thunderbird stores its data in a standard format in the Unix world called "mbox". This format is simply raw content of emails concatenated, one file per folder content. It's not optimized, ie not compressed and attachments are still base64 encoded (take about 1/3 more space), but you work on your mbox with any Unix tools, even simple text editors.
MS Outlook stores its data in a proprietary format known (well, guessed) to be compressed and it probably optimizes the attachment storage too or may be it just stores them in another separated folder which would drastically reduce the "email" storage size since it's only text and has very good compression rate. If you are using Linux, you may want to try some compressed filesystem... I never check this myself since I use IMAP and emails are stored in Maildir format at server side. -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 252 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080313/44739a6a/attachment.pgp
