Email Overhead

[Dunx]

I was just glancing at my email manager in CNC, and it said that my usual email account currently has 102Kb of overhead - 44Kb for POP3 with no messages waiting, and 52Kb for IMAP with 2 messages in the Sent folder.

I know there is always some overhead for any active email address, but is there any way to reduce overhead that has ballooned?

[Arthur]

For each email account Qmail makes a couple of directories (main directory (name of the box) and the subdirectories 'cur', 'new', 'tmp'). An empty directory takes up 1 block (4 kB) of diskspace (as does an empty file, or a file with just a couple of bytes in it). Filters and other control files also take up a bit of space.
For IMAP additional directories are made.

The only way to get rid of some of the overhead (like the IMAP directories) is to delete the mailbox and then recreate it. The space occupied by a clean new mailbox is 16 kB.

Arthur

[Dunx]

Thanks - I'll think about whether I want to do that!