Re: [Evolution] How do I clean up synchronized IMAP folder?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

As guenther said, you probably don't want to wipe out the whole local folder structure.  A safer way is to remove the messages themselves, which are purely a cache, and contain no other data, to do this, just go to the right folder and:

rm  [1-9]*

in the folder directory in question.  The folder name will map like this:

INBOX/foo
->
~/.evolution/mail/imap/user host/folders/INBOX/subfolders/foo


On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 15:55 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > Not knowing what it did, under the Evolution snapshot I had the
> > > "Automatically synchronize remote mail locally" checked.  I learned what
> > > it did when I selected an IMAP folder containing 3000+ message in
> > > it.  ;)
> > > 
> > > So I've turned that off and now use the individual folder properties to
> > > set the offline availability option.  But this brings up an interesting
> > > question.  Once I disable this option, how do I ever get rid of all of
> > > the messages that have been downloaded to local store for folders that I
> > > don't want synchronized?  Is there a way for Evolution to do this for
> > > me?  Should I just go into my ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/... and
> > > rm -f them?
> > 
> > You can even rm -Rf ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/ (after having
> > completely shut down evolution properly, of course).
>
> This directory isn't only for offline folders, but local caching in
> general.
>
> Also note, that removing it will remove Labels assigned to mails, as
> those cannot be stored on all IMAP server, IIRC. Labels are stored
> locally.
>
> ...guenther
>
>
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