Re: [Evolution] Mailbox storage location

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I use Evo from a NIS account whose home directory is NFS mounted.  I
> currently have about 200MB of mail (using mbox format on all folders,
> with body indexing off).  
>
> It's beginning to get painfully slow accessing many of my folders,
> especially when moving messages around.
>
> I've read on other posts about the other message formats, and think that
> maildir may help this alot.
>
> What I'd really like to do, however, is be able to specify a different
> location (on my local box) for Evo to keep all its data, so I'm not
> constantly dragging this stuff over the network (I only use Evo on this
> one machine - no need to have it in the NFS exported home).
>
> Is this possible?  If not, would maildir help my plight?

Well, I checked the opposite with a somewhat older version, but it
should be possible, to have your mails stored locally, using a symlink.

If you move the entire ~/evolution/local/ folder to your machine [1],
you could try setting a symlink for local/ pointing to a path on a local
partition.

Be sure to stop Evolution and run 'evolution --force-shutdown' before
moving that data.


Regarding the maildir format: I don't know, if this will speed up
things, but it is likely IMHO. I noted some delay when deleting mails
from folders worth multiple 10 MByte of data in mbox format. As I blamed
it to the nature of mbox (the whole file has to rewritten), using
maildir could speed this up.

...guenther


[1]  You will not be able to access this data from any other machine and
thus rendering NFS kinda useless...


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