Kelly,
Have you tried looking under preferences and under disk space that is under
the mail and newsgroup section, you might want to check into your settings
there.
Jenelle

Kelly Younger wrote:

> Annie wrote:
> >
> > Hello again
> >
> > I have been trying out your advice about the settings in the advanced
> > preferneces, but after much waiting, the only thing it seems to affect
> > if the cache for surfing. it halts all at annoyingly short intervals now
> > to clear the cache. The mail bits are still merrily building up to
> > obscene sizes.
> >
> > I have tried emailing netscape, but perhaps they have been too busy with
> > the Microsoft anti competition trials
>
> > I have been trying to clear out some (well, lots) of messages from my
> > INBOX.
> >
> > The messages all go into the TRASH, and then I delete them out of there,
> > but they don't seem to leave my hard drive. I have solved this by going
> > into DOS and deleting the entire TRASH files which are then rebuilt next
> > time I go into Netscape4.
> >
> > My problem lies in how to get rid of my old INBOX messages, that
> > although do not appear anywhere in Netscape, are alive and well, all 11
> > odd meg of them on my hard drive. I checked the file through DOS, and
> > the file contains every message I have sent since my last Windows crash,
> > sometime in November last year. I know I could wipe the lot, BUT I do
> > want to keep the messages for the past month or so.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > I have a pentium 100, 16 meg RAM, running Netscape 4.something under
> > Windows 3.11.
>
> You *can't* delete mail from Trash individually. Use File|Empty Trash on
> Local Mail, then File|Compact Folders. Any .snm file can also be deleted
> which may result in disk space savings, though they will be rebuilt
> automatically. Do *not* delete any file with no extension or mail will
> be lost.
> Netscape does not provide free support for a free product. Try
> http://www.ufaq.org/, or the Netscape help newsgroup
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.communicator.
>
> --
> Kelly Younger
>
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