Re: [Evolution] mbox file

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

I seem to recall that mozilla mail (or was it some other mailer I used a
long time ago?) had an option to "compress mailbox", and that it was
necessary to do so in order to free up disk space after "deleting"
messages.  If that's what you have in mind, Dennis, Evolution does
deletion differently, and compressing the mailbox after deleting mail is
unnecessary.

If you want to use compress, gzip, bzip2, etc. on the mbox file in order
to save space, as Not Zed says, Evolution won't be able to read it. 
Probably only really useful for archival purposes.

-Mark Gordon

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:33, Not Zed wrote:
> gzip -9 mbox
>
> but evolution wont read it.
>
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:53, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
> > How do you compress the mbox file?
> >
> > Thanks