Re: Dashboard-hackers Digest, Vol 25, Issue 3

["ivo welch" <ivowel gmail com>]

I do not know much about the beagle internals, but there are very nice
imap libraries in perl, that would make it a 1-hour affair to write a
program that downloads all emails from an imap server and hands them
to beagle...

On 5/4/06, dashboard-hackers-request gnome org
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> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 17:03:28 +0100
> From: David Aveiro <david peakcottage com>
> Subject: Re: beagle imap handling?
> To: dashboard-hackers gnome org
> Cc: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>
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> Joe Shaw wrote:
> > The obvious downside to having your mail program cache data locally is
> > that it uses some additional disk space, but if it's a true cache it
> > should be able to clean itself up from time to time.  Otherwise, it's
> > probably a bug in the mail reader.
> >
> Yes that's precisely my problem, I have about 1GB of email (tens of
> thousands of files - Maildir format), and having that replicated is a lot :)
>
> What do you mean by cache clean itself? Evolution cleans the cache after
> a while (like erases mails from cache that aren't viewed for a long time)?
>
> If beagle had indexed all cached emails and then they disappear from
> cache but beagle can still search for it, that would be ok for me...
>
> But I would need to first somehow make evolution fetch all messages from
> IMAP server and put them in cache... Ideas for this?
>
> David
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 12:07:51 -0400
> From: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>
> Subject: Re: beagle imap handling?
> To: David Aveiro <david peakcottage com>
> Cc: dashboard-hackers gnome org
> Message-ID: <1146672472 32185 89 camel portage boston ximian com>
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 17:03 +0100, David Aveiro wrote:
> > Yes that's precisely my problem, I have about 1GB of email (tens of
> > thousands of files - Maildir format), and having that replicated is a lot :)
>
> Yeah.  I am in a similar boat.
>
> > What do you mean by cache clean itself? Evolution cleans the cache after
> > a while (like erases mails from cache that aren't viewed for a long time)?
>
> Well, a cache should only make things more efficient, it shouldn't be
> strictly necessary.  As a colleague of mine once said, "A cache that
> never cleans up after itself isn't a cache, it's a leak."  I don't know
> if Evolution cleans up after itself in low disk situations.
>
> > If beagle had indexed all cached emails and then they disappear from
> > cache but beagle can still search for it, that would be ok for me...
>
> Yeah, I would be fine with Beagle having some way to signal to the mail
> clients, "Hey, I'm interested in this email, can you pull it down for
> me?"  But scale is always a problem.  That's probably fine for 1, 2, 20
> emails, but if Beagle is consistently asking for 40,000 emails it'll
> saturate your network connection.
>
> > But I would need to first somehow make evolution fetch all messages from
> > IMAP server and put them in cache... Ideas for this?
>
> I believe if you right click on the folder, go to Properties, and check
> the "Copy folder content locally for offline operation" checkbox it will
> do it.  If you have local filters you run on messages I think that will
> do it as well.  And of course if you actually read the mail, that will
> also cache it locally.
>
> Joe
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