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Local mail is twice the size as pop mail

Thunderbird Email and messaging
faith4 replied 16 hours ago
faith4
faith4

For years I had an pop account in my Thunderbird, next to my Imap account. Both live happily next to each other. Today I moved all the mails from my pop account (which was no long active, nor was it connected to a server) to my local folders. I found out that all of my folder were suddenly twice the size. Compressing didn't do a thing. Why is this?

For years I had an pop account in my Thunderbird, next to my Imap account. Both live happily next to each other. Today I moved all the mails from my pop account (which was no long active, nor was it connected to a server) to my local folders. I found out that all of my folder were suddenly twice the size. Compressing didn't do a thing. Why is this?

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Matt
Matt
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What is compressing? Thunderbird has a compact method that cleans up the storage files and often that results in a space saving, but it does not nor is it intended to compress anything.

faith4
faith4 Question owner

I mean compacting.

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