Dan Lord wrote:
>
> I noticed today that my inbox file (on disk) is about 31MB in size.
>
> I counted up the sizes of the messages in my inbox, and the total is
> less than 1MB.
>
Ooof.
> I've compacted my mail folders, but now I suspect that they are not
> really compacted at all, but rather each folder seems to stay at the
> largest size it ever was.
>
> Has anybody else noticed this? Is there anything which can be done about it?
>
> Dan
> BTW, I'm using Netscape (6.01) Messenger
Try a Mozilla nightly (or even the latest release) and see if that's any
different. I'd be curious to see if it can actually compact.