Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > I use IMAP, and download copies of email for offline use. These are > stored under the ImapMail directory. I noticed that the INBOX file gets > constantly larger, even if I delete a lot of the messages and compact > the folder. The server folder is compacted, but nothing good seems to > happen to the local copy. > > I can delete the inbox and inbox.msf files, and they can be > reconstructed easily by Mozilla by downloading all the messages again. > This works well (and I've seen it cut the size of the local file from > 45MB to 11MB). Is there a way to make Mozilla compact that file itself? > > I'll monitor the newsgroup for replies, or send personal stuff to the > From address minus the remove_ part. > > Thanks, > Mark >
try to make sure you do empty trash before compact. Maybe compact is storing the downloaded files even though it got rid of the messages? Maybe a bug here. -Dennis
