Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:10 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote:
> 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. :)

Evolution supports Maildir?  This is news to me.

How exactly do I tell Evo to use a Maildir instead of mbox?

Lee