Mail folders taking up a lot of space. How to make smaller?

[jbrown]

When using Omnidisksweeper to find out what is taking up a lot of storage
space, it shows my Users>Myname>Library>Mail folder at 24GB.

If I look further it becomes unintelligible to me

So I'd like to find a way to determine which stored emails ( out of thousands ) are taking up the most space - I can then make an informed decision as to which ones to delete.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Weaselboy]

You will wreck things if you try to delete from that folder. I would go to the Mail app and make a rule (in Mail preferences) that looks for messages with attachments, then look through those to delete messages with large attachments you don't need.

 

[doynton]

Another option is to check them on your server which may be easier depending who you use.

For example these links will work for gmail (taken from this site http://lifehacker.com/5958583/find-...ting-up-your-gmail-space-with-a-simple-search )

Search for attachments greater than 5MB
Search for attachments greater than 10MB
Search for attachments greater than 25MB

You can then delete them from there if you don't want them. When you synchronise they will be removed from your hard drive.