You sure do. If you don't compact, your mailboxes may become corrupted.
Compacting is for your benefit. "It's a good thing", as Martha might say.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

PixelKing wrote:
When I close OE 6 this dialog opens: "To free up disk space, OE can compact
messages. This may take a few minutes".

How can I keep this from poppinmg up? I don't need to save space.

Thanks,