Re: [Evolution] Can Evo handle lots of email

[Karel P Kerezman <rael zero kgon com>]

On 19 Jan 2001 14:57:03 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.


Except, of course, that Evo's "local" storage of mail is in mbox format
no-matter-what. I use Maildir, sure, but Evo grabs everything out of my
Maildir and stores it as mbox in its own directory tree. *sigh*

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