Re: [Evolution] mbox file

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Ok it sounds like you want archive capability, which is something we
plan to do at some point.

Although we haven't entirely figured out when and specially how it would
work.  But it would probably include compressed-folder support, and also
offline folders, and the like, i.e. folders on tape or cd.  e.g. ability
to change flags in a local summary, but otherwise read-only content.

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
> > >
> > >
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