Re: [Evolution] Can Evo handle lots of email

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

It's the one downfall of the mbox spool format because it requres that
to expunge a message from the spool, you must rewrite the entire file
minus the deleted mails. Basically, what you want to be doing is to mark
messages as deleted but expunge sparingly. To help with this we plan on
hiding deleted mails so that you don't see them and thus do not go
Expunge-happy.

Another option you have is to switch to Maildir which should expunge
fairly quickly as it does not require a rewrite of the mailbox.

Jeff

On 19 Jan 2001 14:42:00 +0100, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2001 00:25:36 +1100, Mike wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I subscribe to lots of email lists and I like to keep all my mail. I 
> > currently use Kmail but have Evolution 0.8 installed. I'm planning on moving 
> > over to Evolution as my Email client as well as syncing my palm pilot with 
> > it. My current Email takes up about 240MB and in my Debian Users folder I 
> > have 17882 messages. It takes about six seconds for kmail to show the 
> > contents of that folder if i click on it. All i want to know is will Evo have 
> > in problems with having such a mssaive amount of email in one folder?.
>
>
> I have some pretty big folders too.  Everything seems pretty snappy,
> especially the search and vfolder stuff.  BUT, when I hit the Expunge
> button, suddenly I'm teleported back to my 486, waiting for a kernel
> compile to finish.  For those of you who never experienced this
> pleasure, I usually have time to walk down the street, rent a DVD, and
> eat a turkish pizza before it is done...
>
> What's up with Expunge?  Is it mostly a factor of hardware, or is
> something 'less than optimal'?
>
>
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