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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:15, Marcus Franke wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-07-21 um 15.06 schrieb Not Zed:
> > 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.
> A question about this, Evolution seems to use the mbox format.
> Can I switch to maildir?

goto file->folders->properties for xxxx.

You can also just create a new 'external account' which points to an
existing maildir tree (which probably works better than changing your
inbox to be maildir, etc).

> <possibly stupid question>
> Other question, can I use a second programm like mutt and read
> my mails? My Computer at work keeps running and running and
> sometimes I use the computer at home to login into the company
> network and I could read this way my emails.. At the moment I
> have no real mailserver here..
> </possibly stupid question>

Yep.  With the standard mailbox format, its better not to run them both
at the same time, but with maildir format it should work ok.