[OSX-Users] spotlight or mail piggy-ness?

[m.c. schraefel]

Hi

i keep my mail on a separate volume, and any time i turn on spotlight 
to index my apple mail, etc, it seems a couple hundred megs disappear 
from the disk. When i look at the disk, though, spotlight doesn't 
seem to be taking up that much space.

-rw-------@  1 mc    staff     15364 17 Apr 17:59 .DS_Store
drwx------   3 mc    staff       102 23 Apr 09:34 .Spotlight-V100

is there somewhere i should be poking to see what's going on to be ?

in the Mail folder itself, the fattest file seems to be Envelope Index

-rw-r--r--   1 mc  staff  4409344 24 Apr 13:56 Envelope Index

i "vacumed" the index and got about a meg back, but that's not a 
great leap forward.

thanks

mc