"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u1SYnfxUHHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> When you delete messages the space isn't necessarily freed up. By
> compacting the store occasionally, every 100 shutdowns by default, it
> keeps the store smaller than it otherwise would be. This is a good thing
> BTW.


Actually, WinMail does not keep the message itself in the database. It does
store all sorts of information about the message there, though, and that
space is not recovered until the database is compacted. Steve Cochran has
written a nice little free program dealing with the database, WMUtil:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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