Re: [Evolution] How to compact empty mailboxes?

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 03:52, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> le sam 23-03-2002 à 09:28, Jim Bowen a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:26, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >
> > > How about a command-line utility that recursively rebuilds the indices,
> > > and runs from a cron job in the middle of the night?
> >
> >
> > Haven't looked through the source yet but I think the best solution
> > would be to do a re-index following any expunge command rather than
> > making a separate script/cron-job to do it. At first thought it does not
> > seem like it would be an excessively difficult patch to add a call
> > re-index to the expunge command (though I may be wrong). Definitely
> > worth looking into though.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea. Reindexing will be very costly if there
> are lots of mails in the folder. I don't want an 'expunge' to take
> hours.

So why not make a menu item called "Compact Folders" that expunges and
re-indexes at the same time? That way if someone has a lot of mail they
can do it when it's convenient for them.


-- 
Stephen