Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

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Igor A. Nesterov wrote:
> Today I have received rather big mail. It was of 80,000 text lines,
> which gives us about 6MB, but other than that it was pure ASCII text.
> It's automatically generated message with some sort of alarms, so
> sometimes it happens. This message has practically killed Evolution and
> in fact the whole desktop. Evolution generated so much disk activity
> that any type of work on my desktop was impossible. I have been left
> without email during critical work time, and I had to spent more than
> 1.5 hours trying to figure out what happened to my desktop. I only got
> back to normal when I manually edited my incoming mailbox on IMAP
> server, and found and removed corresponding cache file under .evolution
> hierarchy on my desktop.

I've gotten huge emails before with no problem.  However, my mail
store is IMAP, not local mbox files.  That may be the difference.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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