Re: [Evolution] Synchronising mailboxes

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 
>>
>> Eustace, Glen wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Furthermore, refetching messages unnecessarily is not just a matter of
> how fast your network is, it's also hammering your mail server. Your
> server admin (me) is not going to thank you.

I won't get mad if I stress my machine a bit extra...

>> Make your Evolution icon execute a script that does the following:
>>
>>   #!/bin/sh
>>   evolution
>>   evolution --force-shutdown
>>   cd ~/.evolution/mail/imap/$EVO_ACCT/folders
>>   for f in `du -a | cut -f2 | grep -v ^d`; do shred -uv $f; done
> 
> To appease the gods of Shell programming, I'd change the last two lines
> to:
> 
> find ~/.evolution/mail/imap/$EVO_ACCT/folders -type f|xargs shred -uv

An from experience, I'd shred to

  shred -uv -n5

> Alternatively, you could symlink .../folders to a tmpfs filesystem, so
> everything just goes away when you shut the system down.

That won't do any good either.

  $ uptime
   00:35:54 up 39 days,  1:14

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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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