How do I compress my «mbox» file ?

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How do I compress my «mbox» file ?

Hi,

Even after deleting half of my deleted emails, the «mbox» file of my «Deleted Messages.mbox» folder is the same size.

How do I clean that up ?

Thanks in advance.

Happy owner of an iMac G5 !!!!, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 1.6 GHZ - 17" - 2.0 Go

Posted on Feb 17, 2009 7:11 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 17, 2009 8:06 AM in response to Robert Lesperance

The mbox file isn't used in Tiger Mail. If you have one, it is probably left over from before a system upgrade. What is the Modified date?

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Answer 2

Feb 17, 2009 8:26 AM in response to Jeffrey Jones2

Hi Jeffrey,

You are so right ... I will change my Backup script, because that file was omitted because to it was to big.

Where are those files located now ??

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 3

Feb 17, 2009 8:51 AM in response to Robert Lesperance

Mail messages are stored in a complex hierarchy of folders in ~/Library/Mail. If you dig through the hierarchy, each mailbox should have associated with it a .mbox folder. This is a folder, not an mbox file. For example, there should be, somewhere, a folder called "Deleted Messages.mbox". There may be other folders associated with a mailbox, but the .mbox folder is the one with the messages. Inside the .mbox folder is a subfolder named "Messages". Inside that are individual .emlx files. These are the messages. Since they are individual files, there is no mbox that needs to be compressed. Incidentally, the .emlx files can be opened with any text editor, e.g., TextEdit.

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