Re: Outlook Express

haggis wrote:

Why are you compacting mail, anyway? Text files are tiny, and you can save the important parts elsewhere. There's a lot to be said for thinking Zen and just tossing crap you'll never read again anyway.

She's not compacting mail, she's compacting the database. If you delete an email from a mail folder, it just blanks out the space, it doesn't delete it. When you compact your mail, you make your folder database more efficient.
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