Re: [Evolution] Woah! Maybe I am missing something here

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 22:04, Steve wrote:
> To all:
>
> I deleted all my emails out of evolution (after doing a backup), which
> were swelling my evolution directory to about 90 megs.
>
> After deleting the emails, I find I still have a pile of "mbox.ibex"
> files that make up most of the 80 megs that is still in here. I don't
> dare delete them, as it seems they contain filter settings, and so on.
>
> How in the world do you compact or shrink these monsters...?

Just delete them.  They dont contain any settings, only a cache of
information in the folder.

In 1.2 these files auto-compact, but in 1.0 they do not.