Re: [Evolution] Ctrl-ADX

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

My home dir is directly mounted (normal ext2), my computer is a RH6.2
laptop (pII 300), my disk is a bit slow perhaps, but erasing all mails is
wayy too slow.
The 'mh' format is really better - erasing is now very fast. I'll switch to
maildir, thanks for the advice.

Xav

Le 2001.02.20 23:38:26 +0100, Not Zed a écrit :
> Well if you're deleting all mails it should be very fast, even for mbox.
> It basically just doesn't copy anything into a new mbox and links over
> it.
>
> And if you say have a total of 1000 messages and delete a number of
> them, it should be taking seconds, and not minutes to expunge, so well,
> i dont really know.  Unless you have very slow disk or something.
>
> Is your home dir on NFS or something like that, etc?
>
> On 20 Feb 2001 17:15:45 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Yes, sorry ...
> > say, 1000 emails in an mbox folder (from pop account) on my local disk.
> > I don't know exactely how long it is, because I usually let Evo work
> alone
> > and do other things. But around 10mn, on a pII 300 (laptop, armada
> 1700)
> > I'll try again when I have 1000 mails
> >
> > Xav
> >
> >
> > Le 2001.02.20 17:16:41 +0100, Not Zed a écrit :
> > > How many emails?
> > >
> > > What is the folder format, and where is it stored?
> > >
> > > Are they imap folders?
> > >
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Please provide some useful information.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 20 Feb 2001 12:18:36 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > > Hi !
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes (each other day), I use Ctrl-A Ctrl-D Ctrl-X to purge the
> > > folder
> > > > where my mailing-lists are filtered. With some hundreds mails, it
> takes
> > > > forever to complete. I think the purge is not intelligent enough.
> > > >
> > > > Xav
> > > >
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