From: "David Blair" 

I do periodically compact them. I'm probably due for moving out my emails
into the "dated" bin, but it's pretty full. I keep everything
somewhere here- I've found it useful at time to refer back to emails even 3
or 4 years old.


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:400817e7{at}w3.nls.net...
> Do you periodically do a folders|compact|all folders in OE?  I find that
> necessary.  How big is your inbox?  I find OE cranky with more than 300
> messages in each folder.
>
> And I don't trust the auto-compact-in-background.  It may be better now,
but
> it bit me hard in the OE 5.0 era.
>

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