Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

[B S Srinidhi <srinidhi-evo deeproot co in>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:05 -0600, Marcos Pinto wrote:
> Evolution is giving me this error:
> Failed to appened local `Sent' folder: cannot append message to mbox
> file: /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Sent: File too large
> What can I do about this, short of deleting my emails or moving them? 
> I need to be able to easily search through my emails as I currently
> do.  Is there a way to make evolution with Mail-dir format for Sent,

I'm not sure if there is any better way of doing this, but I can think
of two ways of doing this:

* Use Evolution to "Import" the MBox file into its "Local Folder" (you
could create a different folder too) and empty the existing MBox file,
or,

* Use (apt-cache show) mb2md and convert your Sent folder mbox to a
Maildir. 

You can then point Evolution to use the new mbox or Maildir as your Sent
folder. :)

> The file is 2G and the filesystem can indeed handle 2G+ files.  I'm
> running kernel 2.6.13 on Debian sid with reiserfs.

I'm also using ReiserFS. Are you sure that 2G+ files are being handled
correctly? I've faced problems with file that were 1.2G big. Just a
thought. :)

Srinidhi.
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