Will Yardley wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:00:14PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:When deleting messages, messages in the mbox file are marked deleted. How can these mbox files be compacted? Or is that automatic?Mutt syncs the mailbox when you leave the folder; or you can sync by hand (<sync-mailbox> - $ by default, I think).
Thank you Will. I found by experiment that deleting selected messages in a mbox file actually compacts and re-writes the file in a dramatically fast manner! -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux