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From: ARDEA@HGRRUG5.BITNET.UUCP
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Subject: How do I shorten MAIL.MAI?
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 05:55:00 EST
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I would like to know if anybody out there has run into the following problem
and perhaps has an easy solution to it.
 
I was low on disk space and decided to clean up my MAIL-messages. My MAIL.MAI
file contained nearly 500 blocks, so there was something to be gained there.
After I had cleaned up everything I checked my disk quotum, assuming it to
be pretty high. However I still missed nearly 500 blocks. After looking
around abit I found out that my MAIL.MAI file still had its original
length (nearly 500 blocks).
 
After consulting our system manager I learned that MAIl can only extend
MAIL.MAI, but it can't shorten it after deleting messages. In my case it
was no problem, as I only had to delete MAIL.MAI, but what do you have to
do if you want to keep some messages (so you can't just delete MAIL.MAI).
 
Please reply to:
                ARDEA@HGRRUG5.BITNET
 
Thanks in advance,
                  R.F. Janz
                  User consultant,
                  Computer Centre of the State University Groningen
                  The Netherlands