Re: [Evolution] What are mbox.ev-summary and mbox.ibex

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 03:01, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:26, Cecil Westerhoff wrote:
> > I just emptied my trashcan and the mbox went from 72 MB to 0 B. But
> > mbox.ev-summary did not change (200 KB) and mbox.ibex also not (5 MB).
> > Why is this?
>
> mbox.ev-summary didn't change because "hey, we don't have any mail and
> thus no need to write the summary to disk" and so the file was left
> alone.

thats actually a bug.  it wasn't being opened with O_TRUNC when being
written to.  it does actually write to the file always (the header for
example).