Re: cleaning up netscape e-mail

[Anand Buddhdev <arb anand org>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:06:00PM -0700, Hidong Kim wrote:

Compact your mailboxes - there's an option to do so in the menus somewhere.
Normally, in NS, when u delete a msg, it is not really deleted, just marked
for deletion. The actual purge happens only when you select "compact".

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to clear off some disk space by deleting old e-mails.  I use
> Netscape Communicator 4.72 as my e-mail client.  I delete messages in
> the Communicator GUI, but these messages persist in ~/nsmail in the
> various "folders" files.  I also notice that even if I move a message
> from the Inbox of the GUI to another folder, the message persists in
> ~/nsmail/Inbox.  In fact, ~/nsmail/Inbox is over 330 MB now, and if I
> open it with vi, it looks like it contains every message I've received
> since I set up this machine two years ago.  But if I look at the Inbox
> folder in the Communicator GUI, I only see 58 messages.  How do I delete
> a message from the Communicator GUI, and also delete it from the Linux
> filesystem at the same time?  Can it be done?  Thanks,

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Anand Buddhdev