Re: [Evolution] Inbox too large

["Mark Pinto" <markybob gmail com>]

The filesystem is XFS, so that's certainly not a problem.  I created
yearly folders under "On This Computer" and moved them from Inbox, but
somehow the size of the file did not shrink.

On 3/27/06, Alex Malinovich <demonbane the-love-shack net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:26:22PM -0600, Mark Pinto wrote:
> > Evolution has stopped being able to receive new emails.  When I try to
> > fetch new mail (pop3), I receive this error message:
> > "Error while Feching Mail.  Cannot append message to mbox file:
> > /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large"
> >
> > ls -lh on the file shows that it is 2.0G in size.  What can I do short
> > of deleting emails?
>
> This sounds like a filesystem issue. You're most likely storing your
> mbox file on a FAT32 or an older ext2 filesystem. While you could
> probably fix this by moving the mbox to a different filesystem, what you
> really SHOULD do is cut down on how much stuff you have in that mbox.
>
> Having a 2GB+ mbox file means that EVERY time you go to open up your
> mail reader, it has to open a 2 GB file and read every single line in it
> to get the list of emails. This is EXTREMELY inefficient. You should
> either switch to a file-per-email system (ala maildir) or use different
> folders as suggested by another poster.
>
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