Re: [Evolution] Feature Request?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 10:51, Steve Chaney wrote:
> I could be asking a dumb or previously asked question, but...
>
> Is it possible to:
> a) automate (within Evolution) the process of backing up one's settings
> and email and vfolders, etc., etc., into a file which evolution can auto
> recover lost data if needed be? (I do this already, manually, with
> scripts. I'm just theenking of the less savvy user.)

this is most easily done with cron. Just write a script to copy
~/evolution to another location.

> b) compress the mail files and whatnot, with gzip or bzip2, so as to
> save up on disk space? Then uncompress on the fly during file-read?
> (Would this constantly and forever eat up cpu power/time or RAM?)

No, but I suppose it could be written. Not really sure how bad
performance would be, probably extremely bad on mbox formatted mailboxes
but might not be so bad with Maildir?

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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