Mail : archiving to save space

I try to archive may E mail in order to save space.
Is there a rule to set up ?
Deleting attachment ?
Thanks

Diane is correct, you will have to have the EHD hooked up the the laptop in order to use iTunes. mp3 & AAC file encoded at the same bitrate will have the same file size. The difference between the 2 is that AAC files encodes at lower bitrates will have better audio quality than the equivalent mp3 file. For example, AAC@128 should be equal in audio quality to an mp3@160, this is where the space savings comes in as the 128 file will be smaller than the 160 file.
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it's pretty universally accepted.The keyword is "universally". Bzip2 has better compression but it's very slow. This is the reason why bzip2 can't be universally accepted (I mean online content compression via HTTP etc. etc.).
But it's accepted by most of *nix clones. And if I need really save ma space then I use bzip2 rather than gzip.
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108M    standard_gz.log.gzGzip's compresion was fast (took just 60 seconds) and produced archive has 108M Size.
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