Re: [Evolution] How much email can Evolution handle?

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 20:27, Moazam Raja Eng Sun COM wrote:
> I am thinking of migrating my email from Mail.app (from OS X) to 
> Evolution and would like to know how much email Evolution can handle. I 
> have roughly 3.5Gigs of email (local) which I keep. Can Evolution handle 
> this size? Does anyone here have Evolution running with multiple Gigs of 
> email?
>
> The reason I ask is because I've tried to migrate to Netscape mail and 
> it simply barfs when I have alot of email, and hence is useless for me. 
> I'm hoping Evolution will save the day..

In 1 big mbox, or a lot of different folders/sub-folders, or MH 
format?

(This is one good benefit of MH: your mbox can't get too big.  Of
course, you may have 10,000 files in the directory...)

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