Re: [Evolution] Looking for info on why all viewed mail from an imap server is also stored in a local file

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 15:22, Stefanie Blackburn wrote:
> In using evolution 1.2.1 I noticed that all messages that I view on my
> IMAP server are also stored locally under the following directory:
>
> ~/evolution/mail/imap/id mail server net/folders/
> then under the corresponding mail folder such as INBOX
>
> in looking at this I see the following entries:
>
> drwx------   2 id staff        512 Jan  9 10:43 .
> -rw-------   1 id staff     127896 Jan  9 10:43 summary
> -rw-------   1 id staff       2442 Jan  9 09:45 15552.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       1661 Jan  9 09:38 15647.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       3840 Jan  9 09:36 15646.
> drwx------   6 id staff        512 Jan  9 09:36 ..
> -rw-------   1 id staff       1560 Jan  9 09:33 15645.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       4906 Jan  9 09:33 15644.1
> -rw-------   1 id staff       2151 Jan  9 09:32 15644.HEADER
> -rw-------   1 id staff       2282 Jan  9 09:32 15643.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       9888 Jan  9 09:00 15642.1
> -rw-------   1 id staff       1056 Jan  9 09:00 15642.HEADER
> -rw-------   1 id staff       5174 Jan  9 08:59 15641.1
> -rw-------   1 id staff       2546 Jan  9 08:59 15641.HEADER
> -rw-------   1 id staff       4580 Jan  9 08:59 15640.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       1801 Jan  9 08:58 15639.
> -rw-------   1 id staff       3677 Jan  9 08:58 15638.
>
>
> Is this required/expected behaviour of Evolution? 

yes, that is the imap message cache

(you are free to rm -rf anything in there if you want, though it'd be
better to not rm -f the summary file or evolution will have to do a
massive re-FETCH of the message headers again - the other files are safe
to delete without any repercussions except that it might take longer to
load that message in the viewer the next time you open it since we will
have to download it instead of reading from the cache, obviously).

> and if it is - Is
> there a way to modify a setting so that message information is not
> stored locally?

no. there is a feature request about this here:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21894

(came across it just now looking for another bug)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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