Re: [Evolution] mbox file

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

Sounds like a good idea for a wishlist bug.  I took a quick look and
couldn't find any such existing wishlist bug.

-Mark Gordon

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:16, Sean M. Alderman wrote:
> I think this would be a great feature to add, if possible.  Perhaps a
> way to mark a folder as an archive folder so that the mail inside would
> be stored in a compressed format that would be readable (granted slow)
> by evolution.
>
> I typically break my inbox and sent folders up in 6 month intervals for
> historical purposes.  I do find myself searching them about once a month
> on average.  As it stands, I've got about 650MB of email in my
> ~/evolution/local directory.  Having the option to compress the stuff I
> don't use very often but would like to keep handy would be nice.
>
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > I think you must be thinking of "Compact Folders" which is terminology
> > used by Mozilla and Outlook. The equivalent in Evolution is called
> > Expunge.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:35, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > > I seem to recall that mozilla mail (or was it some other mailer I used a
> > > long time ago?) had an option to "compress mailbox", and that it was
> > > necessary to do so in order to free up disk space after "deleting"
> > > messages.  If that's what you have in mind, Dennis, Evolution does
> > > deletion differently, and compressing the mailbox after deleting mail is
> > > unnecessary.
> > >
> > > If you want to use compress, gzip, bzip2, etc. on the mbox file in order
> > > to save space, as Not Zed says, Evolution won't be able to read it. 
> > > Probably only really useful for archival purposes.
> > >
> > > -Mark Gordon
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:33, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > gzip -9 mbox
> > > >
> > > > but evolution wont read it.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:53, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
> > > > > How do you compress the mbox file?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks