Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:50 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:40 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > Evolution supports Maildir?  This is news to me.
> > > >
> > > > How exactly do I tell Evo to use a Maildir instead of mbox?
> > >
> > > Its been there for quite sometime now. I use it for some of my 'test'
> > > accounts on my machine.
> > >
> > > Create a new account and in "Receiving Email", select "Maildir-format
> > > mail directories" as the "Server Type". Give the path to your maildir
> > > and you are all set to access your Maildir "directly". :)
> > >
> > > If I remember correctly, Evolution does not support Maildir quota. It
> > > doesn't seem to update the 'maildirsize' file. (someone please update me
> > > if this works in the latest Evolution :)
> > >
> > > Srinidhi.
> >
> > That does not seem to allow me to retrieve my mail from a POP server and
> > store it in Maildir format.  It only lets me point Evo at a pre-defined
> > maildir.  Apparently it expects some other program to deliver mail
> > there.
> >
> > So I still have the problem where the speed of navigating a folder is a
> > function of how many messages are in it (the more mail, the slower it is
> > to switch messages), because Evo is just seek()ing on a HUGE file,
> > rather than opening a new file per message.
>
> A filter rule can move it from the mbox file to a maildir.

Ok this is getting WAY too complicated.

Please explain step by step how I would move my (HUGE) linux-kernel
folder to a maildir.

Lee