Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

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?

This is already filed in Bugzilla - the request actually has multiple
cache improvement ideas such as:

- no cache
- upper limit on cache size
- button to clear the cache

probably others...

Jeff