Deleting old mail...no new memory

I have a CRT iMac running 10.3.9. Only has 6Gb memory and I wanted to open some up so I did a search for my largest files and found about 788mb of mail in the trash. I deleted about about 700mb of old mail but it didn't create any new open memory.
Everything was moved to the trash then deleted but a search still shows 700mb of mail in the trash folder.

Hi Rob,
Not specifically related to your Mail taking up a lot of your disk space but you might be interested trying a utility such as DeLocalizer or MonoLingual to help clear unused language files that hog a lot of MB of disk space.
Use may vary, but 200-300MB is a good estimate for what most users free up of disk space using one of those utilities.
Dr. Smoke's, of the X-Lab, FAQ "Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk" is an excellent read for what may help you if you haven't already.
littleshoulders [:-)

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