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[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
 
> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 10:19, Felix Miata wrote:

> > Not exactly. After you both delete mail from a folder and
> > subsequently empty the trash, then compacting will shrink the
> > original folder the email was deleted from.
 
> Isn't the trash a separate folder (mail file)? I think it is and if so,
> then the original mailbox form which the message was deleted now has
> the space that message occupies marked as unused and it will indeed be
> reclaimed when that folder is compressed.

NAICT you're describing what I wrote (same difference == no difference
== disk space consumed by mail folders goes up when you "delete", and
down when you compact).
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