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To compact messages Question :
What does it mean to "compact" messages
?
Answer : Compacting e-mail
messages is a maintenance routine
intended to get rid of wasted space and
improve the performance of your mail
program.
Mail folders are usually one big file
that contains all the messages in a
specific mailbox, like your inbox. As
you delete messages from the mailbox,
the physical space those messages
occupied is not actually freed up until
you tell the mail program to compact the
mail folders, which readjusts the space
and cleans things up.
If you do not compact your mail
folders every once in a while, the
message files get bigger and you may
notice that your email program is
starting to plod or crash.
Programs like Outlook Express,
Mozilla Thunderbird or Eudora have a
menu option to compact all your mail
folders. Some programs will regularly
send an alert box suggesting that you
compact your mail folders.
To compact your message folders in
outlook Express, go to the File menu to
Folder and then choose Compact All
Folders, Mac OS X users with Apple's
Mail program can clean up and compact
message files by clicking on a mailbox
in the Mail window, going to the Mailbox
menu and choosing the Rebuild option.
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