[Evolution-hackers] about evolution imap local email storage

[Antonio Xu <antonio xu sun com>]

Hello, NotZed
         I have some questions about imap local email storage. I found 
evolution will copy every readed email's source and its html body to 
local. so if I have 1 GB emails on server, I would have 2 GB emails in 
local imap storage. I think it is a very serious problem. Why did 
evolution copy every readed email to local? Could we remove this bad 
feature? I think we should leave  emails on server instead of copy it at 
local, that is why we using IMAP.  I know this feature will be helpful 
when evolution switch to offline, but evolution have another feature 
which can allow user download every email from server before switch 
evolution to offline. I suggest this issue should be solved before 
evolution 1.4 release. I have seen your and fejj's comment on bug 
#21894. When will you begin solving this issue?  

Best regards
Antonio Xu