Email client that compresses msg database?
 

Does anyone know of a linux e-mail client that automatically compresses the message base?

I've tried most of the linux e-mail clients that I could find, and all of them eventually start loading very slowly because my message database gets so large. I don't like to delete messages (except stuff that's clearly junk), so I guess I need an e-mail client that will automatically compress the message base.

Thanks.

Mutt can do this with folder hooks. I've this configured using gzip and bzip2 in my other machine, which isn't working right now. I could try to get that HD mounted here, only if you can't find this trick anyehre else.

I must be pretty dense myself. I looked under the File menu for both KMail and Thunderbird, and both have a "compact folders" option. I'll see if this makes any difference.

Thanks.

This option just wipes out the deleted messages (which are deleted only by interting a deleted-mark). Compact isn't compress

I just use IMAP to access my mail on a local server, no need to have any client worry about maintaining a local database. Most will do header caching to speed things up, but I've never seen that affect their performance much.