Re: [Evolution] Evolution's http cache

[Peter <pete4abw comcast net>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:53:19 +0530, Parthasarathi Susarla wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 00:44 -0400, Brian Mury wrote:
>> I seem to be accumulating a large number of files in
>> ~/.evolution/cache/http. I'm up to 95 MB. Most of these (at least from
>> the small sample I've looked at so far) are from emails that have been
>> deleted and purged, and they go back over a year.
> The .evolution/cache/http caches the html pages that are view in evolution
> (as mails).
>> 
>> Is this cache supposed to be cleared automatically, and if not, is there
>> a way to clear it on command, other than just deleting the files? Is it
>> safe to just delete the files?
> You can delete these files, no problem. But they should actually be
> deleted. And as far as i have noticed they are deleted. So am not sure
> what the issue might be. probably its some old stuff which remained after
> an upgrade something (just guessing!!)
> 
> Cheers,
> partha

AFAIK, the cache continues to build again -- even after removing the
entire contents of the directory. I am using evo 2.4.2.1. Expunge or Empty
trash still leaves http content in one of the myriad number files under
cache/http. Should this be a bug report? Or do the maintainers monitor
this thread?