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I run two email clients (OE for newsgroup & certain emails) and Thunderbird. Usually receive many emails per day (including a whole lot of junk) which did not get deleted at the server level.

Even with the deletion of emails, I realized that the disks-space remained unchanged. Finally, I found out the answer! Needs to compact the folders. To my surprise, all those emails that were deleted did not actually get deleted from the system but was not kept in view. {read that all database files are like that - never knew this before}

After compacting the folders in the two email clients, I reclaimed more than 1 gig of space!

Here's the instruction for OE: http://www.eckerd.edu/aspec/cug/compactf.htm
Here's one for Thunderbird: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbir...acting_Folders