[imp] IMP Cleanout

[Martin Fraser]

Brian Leggee wrote:
> 
> I just deleted around 12,000 Emails, half of those in the SENT folder, many had big attachments. 
> 
> I was just wondering if that leaves me with a database somewhere that needs to be "compacted" or otherwise reduced to get rid of dead space ... or if that is irrelevant in  this case. 
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> Brian Leggee
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As with all the best answers, it depends.

Assuming you are using some sort of UNIX IMAP server that uses Maildir, 
then each message is stored in a file on the normal file systems, not a 
database at all.

I'm not sure what exchange does though.

In short, I'd say the simple answer is no.

Martin Fraser
darksnow.net