Re: [Evolution] mbox file

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I think you must be thinking of "Compact Folders" which is terminology
used by Mozilla and Outlook. The equivalent in Evolution is called
Expunge.

Jeff

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:35, Mark Gordon wrote:
> 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
>
>
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