Thunderbird 2.8Gb, Apple Mail 9Gb for same messages

I have all my mail from the last thirteen years in both Thunderbird 3 which uses 2.8 Gb, and Apple Mail 4.2 which uses 9 Gb for the same messages.
There are no duplicates in the Apple Mail, and the attachments all seem to be present and correct in Thunderbird.
Is there an explanation for the difference?
I know I can archive the Apple Mail mailboxes but then Spotlight can't search them.
There doesn't seem to be any "compact" option.
Thanks for any input.
EDIT: I meant to say that this mail is all "on my mac" and is all the mail from my POP days, before I converted to IMAP.
Message was edited by: Mike Boreham

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