Re: [Evolution] Deleteing Messages

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> Speaking of actions-expunge, it takes evolution 43 seconds to expunge
> one message from my mbox, which contains about 4000 messages. Also, Get
> mail took 38 seconds to get one message from a server on the same LAN.
> Is this a fundamental problem with storing all email messages in a
> single file

The former is. To expunge a message, it needs to copy the entire mbox
to a temp file without the expunged message, and then move it back. So
this will be slow.

Getting mail being slow is probably a bug.

> If not, how about storing each email in a separate file?

Yes, there will probably be MH and/or maildir providers eventually.

-- Dan