Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > Never struck it when dealing with mail. Before I came to Linux I had use > Pegasus, Eudora, Groupwise something or other. When I started using > Linux at Polytech, it was Pine. I don't remember having to compact > anything to *actually* delete mail. In Pine you must "expunge" to actually delete mail - otherwise mail is simply flagged as being deleted, -- Stephen Chadfield