Re: [Evolution] Error Emptying Trash

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 05:29, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 00:53, Des Dougan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:59, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > uh, I hope not. camel is pretty careful about error checking, 
> >
> > Sorry to butt in with a couple of newbie questions, but what is camel?
> > Is it the back-end processing engine that Evo uses?
>
> camel is the mail access/parsing library used by evolution.
>
> > > if you can find a way to reproduce corruption of the mbox file and/or
> > > the summary 
> >
> > And what are summary files, and what are they used for?
>
> summary files contain a summary of what messages are in the folder. they
> are used for generating the message-list so that we don't have to parse
> the mbox file every time. this is why evolution is so much faster than
> mutt and pine and many other mailers.


Many thanks, Jeff.

Des
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Des Dougan