Take a look at the menu items in: File -> Database -- Dan Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---- Original message ---- Jeff Forte, 2:52 PM, 2/3/04: >I recently emptied my Powermail trash which contained over 30,000 spam >messages. It took about half hour. (3 months worth ... long over do!). > >I thought that when cleaning the trash it would reduce the size of the >database. But when I checked my documents/powermail folder the message >database is still the same: 499 MB, and the index was unchanged also: 39 MB. > >Anyone have any ideas why I can't get the size of the database to reduce >after deleting all those messages? > >Thanks, > >Jeff > >