Re: [Evolution] Making Evo tag spam, add headers

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > Thinking about this, I am not sure, if this will be feasible at all. The
> > imagination of a 100+ MB Inbox in mbox(!) format, getting new messages
> > appended, then being filtered and every single mail being deleted and
> > appended with new headers again, then the junk mails being moved, really
> > scares me. ;)
>
> Ah, but if you *really* insist on using the mbox-format, I don't think
> you will have that much mail in it :-)

Ask the mailer hackers about this. They are stress testing Evo with a
1000+ MByte Inbox and mainly using vFolders for organizing mails. Dunno
if they actually use mbox, though. ;)


> On a sidenote this (IMHO) lack of functionality in Evolution made me set
> up fetchmail + procmail and make Evo fetch it from there instead :-)

That's what I use too and it definitively kicks ass for me: fetchmail,
procmail with SA and a couple of rules, IMAP. I tend to move mails in
very rare cases only, as procmail already has sorted them.


> > > If not, isn't this a feature *everybody* would want, making it possible
> > > to filter and modify the mails locally as much as we want? Isn't that a
> > > good thing anybody would love? It doesn't seem to be too much work, at
> > > least.
> >
> > I am not sure about forthcoming Evo 2.0 with built-in Junk mail
> > filtering yet, but I will deal with this soon. Let's see how this will
> > perform.
>
> Sounds nice.
>
> And one last thing: I really think you should either phase out mbox as
> default format, or make it possible for making other mail storage format
> as default for new folders - it's tedious to change properties of all
> newly created mail folders to Maildir without indexing :-)

Ack, this would be a nice option. Care to file a feature request in
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ ?

...guenther


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