On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:10 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
I'm attempting to get my old email under control. I have about 450M in an 'OldMail' folder in evolution. It's stored in mbox format. If I tar up the entire 'OldMail' directory which includes this list: total 427933 -rw-r--r-- 1 jcooper users 86 Oct 10 2003 folder-metadata.xml -rw------- 1 jcooper users 95 Aug 18 12:51 local-metadata.xml -rw------- 1 jcooper users 434518823 Aug 19 15:24 mbox -rw------- 1 jcooper users 762091 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ev-summary -rw------- 1 jcooper users 928768 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ibex.index -rw------- 1 jcooper users 1550676 Aug 19 15:24 mbox.ibex.index.data Can I just remove it? Will evolution barf on it disappearing? Also, later down the road, if I copied it back into place, would evolution recognize it correctly? I guess the point I'm really trying to get at is this. Does evolution rely solely on the contents of this directory to tell it what mail is there? Usually I would just experiment, but this data is too critical. :(
If you put a new mbox file in the directory /while Evo is shut down/,
then, the next time it starts up, it will re-index the emails.
Thus, since a 0 length mbox is valid, Evo will that, too.
For example:
$ evolution --force-shutdown
$ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M`
$ mv ~/evolution/mail/local/subdirs/OldMail/mbox \
~/tmp/OldMail-$x.mbox
$ gzip ~/tmp/OldMail-$x.mbox
$ touch ~/evolution/mail/local/subdirs/OldMail/mbox
$ evolution ## Evo will start up fine
(Yes, the subdirectory tree is wrong, but close enough for these
purposes.)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
PGP Key ID 8834C06B
"Americans hate foreign policy because Americans hate foreigners,
because they *are* foreigners, and came to this country to get
away from the bad things."
P.J. O'rourke, 2004-06-25, Fox News Channel
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