"Compaction Error" in Mail

I continue to get a "compaction error" when I try to delete emails/move them to my junk. It says my mailbox is too full and yet I can't delete anything because it is too full! I've tried all sorts of combinations of deleting, etc. Help please!

Hirschee's message of 30 May (and others previously) describes the same problem I am experiencing. It seems to arise when the Inbox gets too full.
I solved it once before by freeing up space on the hard disk, but that has not worked this time. It is nightmarish not being able to delete.
I have a POP account.
Any advice gratefully received.
Ben.
iBook dual USB 500MHz G3 Mac OS X (10.2.x) (10.2.8)
replying to -
Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
What type of account do you have -- POP, IMAP or
.mac?
If IMAP (or .mac) what are your selections in Mail
Preferences/Accounts/Special Mailboxes (assumes you
are running Panther as your Profile reports)? It
appears you may be leaving deleted messages in the
Inbox?
Ernie
iBook dual USB 500MHz G3 Mac OS X (10.2.x) (10.2.8)

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Thanks for the response. Sorry that was so confusing.
I found the "instructions to import the old mailboxes from the original POP account named folder moved to the Desktop" in another thread, and I'll be darned if I can find that thread again today.
(This should be a bit more clear.)
I removed the PoP account to the Desktop, opened mail so it recreated the Inbox, and imported the contents of the original PoP folder into mail.
After importing, I had the imported Old Inbox containing deleted junk mail which somehow returned, and some emails were missing. I tried the same deletion of large blocks of mail that caused the error message in the original Inbox, only now it worked perfectly.
> I "got new mail", and it's only from Feb. 5
2007 'til now (1 month on the server.)
This is for/within the old Inbox mailbox that was
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Now that disclaimer is done, a user has gotten this error message:
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while trying to delete his email messages. The first thing I looked at was to view the file size of his inbox. It is a paltry 112Kb. Too small and there were only 3 messages in his inbox. I moved his mail folder to the top of his home directory and recreated his mail, however, any previous mails are missing. Here are the following steps taken to get to the point of missing email.
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Deleting and re-installing the Mail.app rarely resolve this or any problem.
All Mail.app data is stored in the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail and all email account information and general Mail.app settings are stored in the Mail.app preference file.
Since your hard drive did not have adequate free hard drive space required for OS X to function properly until recently, it sounds like some of your mailboxes (mbox files) have some corruption (not the application itself). If so, re-installing the Mail.app will not resolve this since no data is stored in the application.
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Hi,
it seems to me that you must authenticate with your smtp host. In order to do so, try following:
While trying to run a program to sent sms to
mobile(with airtel connection)it shows the Error:
"javax.mail.MessagingException: 505 5.7.3 Client was
not Authenticated.
If anyone knows how to resolve this problem please
reply.
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import java.util.*;
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import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
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