Re: [Evolution-hackers] compression for folders?

["todd fries net" <todd fries net>]

I'm not quite sure what the difference between archival and transparent
compression would be.

I get the impression archival would be, well, not very useful if I
wanted to see all emails from my wife since I've known her, for example.
Would vfolders work on archives?  If so, then what is the difference
between transparent compression and non transparent compression?

BTW, you guys misread my statement.  I have 3gb of mbox files that are
compressed already with 'bzip2 -9' ..

In general, I never throw away email, because I have so much spam that I
can't trust the auto filters to throw it away, and on more than one
occasion important documents have been retrieved from the spam filter
box, case in point the recent tax season saw the pdf email from my
accountant show up in the spambox.

Anyway, I need not justify to you guys why I have so much mail, only
impress upon you that I do have so much mail that I wish to utilize
evolution to access.

I'm going to test out a port of 1.5 to OpenBSD and from there perhaps
migrate to cvs head, from which I can consider developing transparent
compression techniques.

Looks like I'll be searching for the bug related to this ?? .. hopefully
it isn't too small of a needle buried in too big of a proverbial
haystack.

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 22:17, Not Zed wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:53 +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:17 -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> > > I am now using evolution 1.2 on OpenBSD for whatever that is worth, and
> > > have about 3gb of bz2 compressed files to move into evolution folders.
> > 
> > Isn't 1.2 a bit outdated to talk about?
> > 
> > > Are there any mechanisms proposed or existing to compress email folders?
> > 
> > Not yet, and the very common answer for similar/related questions in the
> > past was: "No, and it's not planned anytime soon". Transparent
> > compression will probably break vfolder and searching facilities causing
> > a lot more usability and long term maintenance problems. I doubt Gerardo
> > will like the idea :)
> Well transparent compression would be ... transparent, so everything
> would still work if it was done properly.
> 
> My take on it is that it just isn't worth it on its own - hard drives
> are SO cheap these days.
> 
> If you've got 3GB of email lying around it sounds like its actually
> archival you're after ... i'd certainly support some sort of
> development of compressed archive mode folder stuff.
> 
> i.e. not just a general folder compression option, but a special
> backend for archival and/or hsm storage.
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Zucchi
> <notzed ximian com>
> 
> Ximian Evolution and
> Free Software Developer
> 
> 
> Novell, Inc.
-- 
Todd Fries .. todd fries net

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