Re: [Evolution] Evolution becomes more or less unusable / slow / crashes ... HELP

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

> > How did you turn off indexes?
>
> Click on mailbox and uncheck "Index text messages". This is written in
> French, I don't know the original text in English.

I had the same question (how to turn off indexes). Looks like it's
something that applies to local/"On this computer" mailboxes only ->
under that in the folder tree -> right-click on inbox -> untick "Index
message body data".

> > IMHO, the ability to purge mailboxes should be more visible. Maybe
> > evolution should warn that a mailbox is full of 90% deleted messages
> > (which was my case).
>
> Isn't that what the "View -> Hide Deleted Messages" tick box is all
> about?

I think Jean-Michel is suggesting something that's arguably a bit
friendlier, perhaps along the lines of this pseudo-code on send/receive:

if( num_trash_msgs >= 1000 && num_trash_msgs / total_msg_count >= 0.6 ) then
    show_dialog( "Your mailbox contains a lot of trash messages that have not been deleted yet. Do you wish 
to purge trash messages now?", "Purge", "Cancel", purgeTrashCallback() )
end if

> since a significant number of the queries to
> this list involve the fact that people don't see deleted messages.

Yep, often this involves thinking that something is deleted when it's
just marked as trash. The above _may_ go some way towards helping
prevent that.

-- All the best,
Nick.