Re: [Evolution] MailDir + unSYNC + Invalid Root on Evo 1.4.6

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:13, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:48 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> [snip]
> > (One way which I can have a shorter logout(using mbox format) would be
> > to make sure evo does not "empty trash at exit)
>
> But then you'll be accumulating lots of undeleted mail.
>
> The bottom line is that Really Large Amounts Of Email is going to
> cause you slowness somewhere, somehow, depending on the filesystem,
> RAM, storage type (Maildir, mbox, mh, etc), etc.
>
> Why not bite the bullet and archive that folder into yearly sub-
> folders?

I'm gonna hold that off for the Mail-List. But am considering it for my
Office Mails which are HUGE.

Mail lists mails are usually small. 40K messages and only <200MB.


> > and what's teh :2,S or :2,RS means at the end of the email file name?
>
> The ",S=x" is the number of bytes in that file.

I didn't see any ",S=x" when I ls into that Dir.

but thanks.