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You can make backup of your keys and messages, delete the database (shut down Bitmessage before to do this!) and next time you run Bitmessage, it will recreate new database. My old messages.dat was 678M. After I deleted it, the size of the new messages.dat is 25M. I just moved the folder .config/PyBitmessage to PyBitmessage-old-backup, made new .config/PyBitmessage and copied keys.dat to the new folder. If I want to read my old messages, I can just swap the folders. Discussion on Reddit.

On my previous post I wrote how to send images with Bitmessage . In a similar way you can also send any type of file but you may need some extra cut/paste and writing commands.

If you run your Bitmessage client with nohup (like I am suggesting in this article ) you can view the statistics about nodes that are currently online:

The Bitmessage client is still in very early version. It don't support folders, filters, tags, attached files (in easy way). There is no even simple search. But you can send images and other files using Data URI scheme .