Re: [Evolution] Purging pop account caches (1.4.6)



On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:22 +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
Some people here are still using 1.4.6 and I notice that a few have
large pop account cache directories:

   ~/evolution/mail/pop/whoever wherever com/cache

$ du -c -s -h .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders
250M    .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders
250M    total

What's the safest way to purge these caches?
Is it necessary to shut evolution down first?

I'm thinking of doing something like:

  find $dir -atime +1 ...

so it doesn't interfere with current operations even if evolution
is running.  Is that safe?

(I thought this question might have been asked before but all I could
find in the archives was that these caches should be purged
automatically.)

Maybe an at-startup thread that goes thru the cache, deleting 
cached emails that are, say, 7 days old would be useful.  After
the first time, it should be pretty fast.

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