Hi
If I understand correctly, when you delete a mail from netscape folder it
actually marks it for deletion. When you compact the folder it deletes it
actually. Thus reducing the mailbox file in size. It does not store it in
compressed format. You can cat all the mailbox and see each and every byte in
plain text...
Bye
Shridhar
sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> Netscape ( i use it when on NT ) has a "compact folder" option, but when
> I had tried it, it appeared it did not do anything to the mbox file. It
> creates another file called mbox.snm, to me which appeared to contain the
> byte offsets to the start of the messages in the actual mbox file. This
> will make the parsing faster....but compaction no.
>
> sreangsu
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