Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

[Marcos Pinto <markybob gmail com>]

that's just not right.  if you have a pop account in evolution,
evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format.  and
then you get screwed when that mbox file gets over 2G

On 12/28/05, Erik Slagter <erik slagter name> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > But it gives me a choice of pop OR maildir.  I need my messages to be
> > downloaded from the POP server then delivered into the maildir.
>
> Actually any account is (indeed) EITHER pop OR mbox (OR imap, etc.)
>
> The idea of pop (but stronger with imap) is that the messages are not
> downloaded and stored at all, but downloaded when selected to be viewed.
>
> Now I know that for instance outlook goes completely against this
> principle and blindly downloads all messages.
>
> Afaik evolution won't do that, except if you selected "copy folder
> contents for local operation" or (?) if you have created a filter that
> needs to have the message body to operate on.
>
> These messages are then stored into an evolution-specific format which
> you cannot select and has nothing to do with mbox or maildir.
>
> If you want to transfer all of your pop account to a mbox file or
> maildir directory, I suggest you use a tool that exactly does that, and
> have evolution operate on this file/dir. But I don't think that is
> actually what you're looking.
>
>
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