This sounds like a mailbox which has expunged messages, but the space can not be reclaimed because more than one session has the mailbox open. The same thing happens with mbx format as well. Try killing all the sessions that have the mailbox open, then open it in just one session.
Indeed! It was that simple, thanks, that knocked it right down to size. I had been looking at it in 'readonly' mode so as to not mess up the evidence! :-(
Thanks again.
Another cause of size discrepancy, although probably not to the extent that you report, is the sort cache. You can safely delete .mixsortcache files; they will just be regenerated the next time that a sort or thread is done. Also, 2006k is old. The current UW version is 2007b (or 2007c in Alpine 2.0 with a minor bugfix in the SMTP client code).
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