IMAP "cache" ( was Re: [Evolution] Purging pop account caches (1.4.6))

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:33 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 20:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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
>
> Yes but imap isn't a cache, pop is!

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and acts like a duck...

It's a header cache.

$ du -a .evolution/mail/imap/me haggis/folders/INBOX | \
       grep HEADER$ | wc -l
58305

Do those 58K files need to sit there for all eternity?

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