Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

[Replying to own post]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Link the cache folders you don't want to /dev/null? (I haven't tried
> this and don't know about any possible side-effects).

This makes no sense e.g. you might want to cache a subfolder but not its
parent, or cache headers but not bodies, etc. etc. In my defense I
haven't had my morning tea yet :-)

(Removes foot from mouth).

poc

> poc
>
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 23:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some of my IMAP folders (spam, history subfolders for mailing lists, 
> > etc) don't really need to be cached, but are, even if I accidentally
> > go into them.
> >
> > So, a suggestion: add a boolean "do not cache" folder property.
> >
> > Example: I'm subscribed to Debian-User, which has approx 10-12K
> > emails per calendar quarter.  That adds up to between 40 & 90MB
> > of cache data and 12-20K extra files per quarter that are totally
> > un-needed.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
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