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.

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