Re: [Evolution] Can Evo handle lots of email

["Michael Leone" <turgon mike-leone 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.

Thank God. I hate seeing all those crossed-out messages. :-)

Not going with the "Trash" folder concept, then?

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

Can you change the format of your mailboxes from mbox to maildir, without
losing any mail?