Reclaiming disk space from deleted emails

I have had lots of issues with my internal disk on my powerbook running out of space and decided to do some clearing out of emails. I have my mail set to store on server and on my mac and have kept emails going back to 2004.
I used mailsteward software to archive old emails and then have deleted those emails from within mail app, deleting more than 20,000 emails.
The emails have gone but hasn't freed up an awful lot of space, maybe 100Mb when I was expecting a lot more than that.
Is this possibly because the actual mailbox files don't get shrunk back? Is there something I can do to reclaim the disk space? I have done a mailbox rebuild but that didn't do much either.
Thanks,
Mike

If you archive the mail using Mail Steward, then delete the items from the Mail database, exactly what change in disk space would you actually expect? You've just changed the location of the mail archive from a Mail database to a MailSteward database.

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